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View from the replica barracks.  The view from this position to the fort would have been blocked by numerous barracks and prison administrative buildings

    

This is the sally port which was the main entrance to Fort Delaware.  It had a drawbridge but it did not work well so it was later replaced with a bridge.  Confederate Gen. Archer was housed in the rooms just above the sally port entrance

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