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Many Delawareans favoured the Union cause, although men from the state served in the armies of both sides. Fort Delaware, built on a small island in the Delaware River to protect Wilmington and Philadelphia in the 1850s, became one of the Union’s major prisoner-of-war camps.

Apr 21, 2016 · CNN —. A 16-year-old girl died Thursday after fighting with other girls in a bathroom at Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, Delaware, authorities said. “There was an altercation ...

Aug 17, 2008 · A mob of white supremacists armed with rifles and pistols marched on City Hall in Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 10 and overthrew the elected local government, forcing both black and white officials to ...

Mar 24, 2023 · A man is pictured in a file photo making his confession in a confessional booth. In a March 22, 2023, statement, Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee barred Father James E. Connell from celebrating the sacrament of confession and offering absolution after the retired priest wrote an essay for the USA Today media network favoring legislation that would require priests to report child ...

New Castle, city, New Castle county, northern Delaware, U.S. It is just south of Wilmington on the Delaware River, there linked to New Jersey by the twin spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. The original settlement, called Santhoeck, was established in 1651, when Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch administrator, built Fort Casimir there. The settlement was seized by the Swedes in 1654 but was ...