William Henry EVERNGAM
Co.B 1st Maryland Cavalry, CSA		 b.abt 1832
d.1863 at Fort Delaware, DE
married:
Margaret H. IRELAND2?3
(b.25 Nov 1830)
d.4 Jul 1898 Queenstown, MD
married Feb 1855 in Centerville, MD		 parents:
William EVERNGAM (b.1795)
Louisa BLAND (b.1804 d.1880)
children: EVERNGAM
  1. Peter Willis (b.~1861)
  2. William (b.9 Jul 1862)
    d.11 Jul 1937 Baltimore, MD
siblings:
  1. Lorenzo Dow (b.1829)
  2. Thomas James (b.1831)
  3. Mary E. (b.1833)
  4. Martin Vanburen (b.1838/39)
  5. J. Frank (b.1845)

fact sources and writings about this individual:

1Info from Renee Marr of Fayetteville, GA
2Daughter of James & Catherine Ireland.
3according to Mike Everngam's information, William married a "Frances Margaretta IRELAND" The "H" in our original information could be a "F".

Research of Kevin Everingham of MI, 2008 & 2019;

Taken prisoner at Centerville MD, during the Civil War, implicated in the sinking of the blockade ship "Hard Times" at Corsica Creek - Feb 1, 1863.

1863 The Delaware State Journal and Statesman Newspaper, Wilmington, Sept 18, 1863.. "(Military Claims & Pensions).. We Learn that Mr. Wm. Henry Everngam, who, in company with Mr. James Tilghman of John, was sent South last Spring, died at Fort Delaware, on last Saturday week. He was with Gen. Lee's army when it came into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was taken prisoner at Gettysburg."

Northern Army reports he was taken prisoner at Centerville, Maryland.. Southern Army reports he was taken prioner at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Both sources agree that he died at Fort Delaware.
Fort Delaware was a former harbor defense facility, located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. During the course of the war 33,000 Confederates, political prisoners, and Federal convicts were imprisoned at the fort. A total of 2,927 Confederate military prisoners, 39 civilian detainees, and 109 Union guards are known to have died while at the fort.

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