On Memorial Day 2005 the web site of the New York
Correction History Society web site announced unveiling its latest presentation:
Another NYC Isle's Prisons: Fort Jay, Castle Williams
-- six web pages on Governors Island history including 55 images and a
bibliography of 81 on-line resources used.
Among topics explored in words and images (and in
some instances, sound) are the forts, the former School of Practice for Field
Musicians, its Drum Major's Music Book, "Dixie" and the famous 24 notes of
"Taps," the various executions, the chapels, the chaplaincy of Fr. Whelan to
Union and Confederate POWs, the imprisonment of Chiricahua Apaches, early 20th
Century prison life, the Nazi spies' story and the tale of the West Point
graduate who studied law while assigned to Governors Island and who in the late
1930s became NYC Correction Commissioner and in 1948 became the first
Israeli general in modern history.
The presentation also can be accessed from a link
line on the home page immediately below the "Civil War & Correction" icon
at
or
from the site's "Civil War & Correction"
menu page at
By the way, the number of www.correctionhistory.org files
(words.images, sounds) now exceeds 6,000 (taking up 300+ Mbs of server space),
making the site the largest on-line resource devoted to any state or
city's history of correctional services.
Thomas C. McCarthy, general secretary/webmaster,
New York Correction History Society