Andrew M. McMoore Diary
[notes written front to back right side up]
[?] on 15th Aug
Stewart
Mess No 3
Marion Spaulban
Mess No 2
J C Young
34 Killed & wounded
121 Missing
6 Sick
381 for duty
104 [?]
[sideways]
Capt Kane
Corn P S Chapin
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E S Dickey
Chas Gooden
Buck at the
Shabberry House
1 oC PM
Corp J A Ballowe
Orange Brittell
John Hawver
Danl Reed
S Richardson
Erastus H Scott
Wm C Stacy
Theodore Aldridge
[upside down]
Shanklin
Hall & Moore
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Pott income
Phil Rhodes
Wm Emitt
C Osburr on B[?]
[sideways]
S B Howard
Provost Guards
Co C
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Screw Hooks
Bedding Trunk
Paper Tares Ink
Clothing Nails
Hammer
Looking Glass
Wash Dish
Broom
Small Cord
1 Bugle & L[?] 2.25
1 vest 5.00
1 Pistol 20.00
Cartrages 2.00
Caps .75
Straps 2.25
Gloves 2.25
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T H Marsh
Lanman Black
John G Price
on corner of
Church & Vine St
John S Struther
Capt Co K 13 Pa Cav
Chas C Dunn
Chief of Adams
Express Co Washing
ton D.C.
Novr 20th 1862 Resigned
Major Everetts
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Aug 15th 1862
Camp Fuller Ills
I this day appointed
1st Orderly Abner Miller
1 Sergent F. A. Caughey
2 " M L France
3 " E S Harris
4 " J M Searns
Also Corporals
1st Geo Newton Sr
2 R Managan
3 Benj Cohenour
4 H McCarty & S G Stedman
5 J W Shaeffer [?]
6 Enoch Longe
7 Julius Ballow
8 Daniel Ingraham
W Emmett
Barny McGrady
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Sunday Octr 5th 1862
Newton Complains
T. E. Colby said he would head a stampede
Present Rex Brown
Newton Courier
Pat Dailey Al R Scott
Stearns
John Bishop
Co 2 4 Balto
John Henry
Co 7th 4 Btalion
H. C.Hervin
1 Bat Co 3
Jas Kale Co 3
1 Batalion
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F. Morse furlough
Aug 18th Expires Aug 28
Ausburn Furlough
Aug 20 Exps Aug 25
C Barnes Furlough
Aug 20 Expires 25
Lieut Barber Furlough
Aug 20 Expires Aug 23
T. H. Mack Furlough
Aug 21 Expires 25 Aug
E S Harris Furlough
Aug 21st Expi Aug 25
J Ballow Furlough
Aug 21st & Expires Aug 25 Returned
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J S Dewey Furlough
Aug 21st & Expires Aug 25
Courier Furlough
Aug 21 & Expires Aug 25
H Bowman Furlough
Aug 21 & Expires Aug 25
23 Wm D Cook
Expires Aug 25th
23H Toby
Expires Aug 26
23 Danl Ingerham
Expires 25
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Furloughs 1862
Aug 28 C Barnes September 2nd
" 29 R Managan Exps 2nd
" 29 F A Caughe " 2nd
" " Malory " 2nd
" " H. Mahan 2nd
" " L H Richards 2nd
" " E W Arey 2nd
Aug 30 Wm Wiggins 2nd
" 30 Wm Trazy 2nd
" " M Ingerham 2nd
" " E L Curtis 2nd
" " J. W. Shaeffer 2
" " P Tiffeny 2
" " S Coats 2
" G Barker 2
" J. H. Stewart 2
31st S. L. Dewey Sept 9th
31 W D Cook " 5
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Furlough
Sept 2 E L Besser Exps 6
" 3 E H Barber " 6
" 3 Cramphin " 6
" 3 Cramphin " 6
McCulloughs
Hotel
Anapolis MD
Six Dollars
Aprl 6th 1863
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Prisoners from
75th Co K Lee County
H C Mason
Wm Miller Lee Co
John Woodman
G M Genings
Co B 75
Co D 75th
Silace Richardson
S. C. Osburn
Benj Cohenour
Co I 75th
Jos McBride
34th Reg Co A
Geo. B. Brant
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Names of Prisoners at Murfeys Borrow
Division Brigade Regt
1 A Willich Briga General 2 1st
2 G W FitsSimmons Major 2 2 30 Indiana
3 Silace Miller " 3 1 36 Illinois
4 D J Hall " 2 1 89 Ills
Co
5 Thos Whiting Capt 2 1 89 " G
6 M A Smith 2 Lieut 3 1 36 Ills H
7 A McMoone Capt 1 1 75 " D
8 Wm S Wood " 2 2 34 " D
9 L Kaunth 2 Lieut 3 2 2 Missouri A
10 W R Laurance 2 " 3 2 73 Ills C
11 E G Hall 2 " 3 2 11 Michigan I
12 A G Brown 2 " 2 1st 49 Ohio C
13 D B Elliott 1 " 2 2 79 Ills D
14 W C Wheeler Capt 1 3 81 Ind C
15 C E Tanbury 2 Lt 1 2 15 Wisc D
16 L K Westcott 2 " 1 2 38 Ills F
17 D Snodgrass 1 " 8 7 74 Ohio H
18 D Cavanaugh Capt 2 3 6 Ind A
19 J Bicker Capt 4 22 1 Ky K LW
20 John Moone 2 Lt 2 2 30 Ind I
21 Orville Merrill Capt 3 1 36 Ills I
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Names & Rank of Prisoners Dcr 31st 1862
Divis Brigade Regt
22 B. F. Campbell Capt 3 1 36 Ills I
23 Abbert M Hobbs " 3 1 36 " B
24 S H Wakeman 1 Lt 3 1 36 " E
25 J. F. Elliott 1 Lt 3 1 36 " A
26 M A Smith 2 Lt 3 1 36 " K
27 J E Burnett 2 Lt 3 1 21 Mich K
28 Oliver O Bagly Capt 2 2 79 Ills G
29 A Perry Capt 2 1 90 Ohio D
30 J D Crowell Capt 2 1 39 Ind C
31 Thos G Cochran 2 Lt 2 2 77 Penn D
32 Wm H Gorboden 1 Lt 2 1 39 Ind B
33 Geo T Winters 2 Lt 2 1 39 " C
34 E H Hall 1 Lt 2 2 34 Ills E
35 W P Edgerton Capt 2 2 Battery E Ohio
36 A Berwick 2 Lieut 2 2 " "
D Hopeman Lt Col 104 Ill
T H Widmer
Lieut Lewby Asistant Adg't
at Parole Camp Benton Barracks
St Louis Cr 2.50
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[entries stricken]
Mrs A. A. Brush
St MO Louis
W W Brush
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Mrs A. A. Dailey
Greenfield Ind
Indiana
G W Dailey
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John Wood
Sublette Lee Co
Illinois
W S Wood Capt
Co D 34 Regt
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Mrs. M. C. Blodgett
Lena
Stephenson Co Ills
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Amos T Hall
Chicago Ills
for Maj D J Hall
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Alabama Georgia
Tennessee Ky
Philipp Close
of St Louis
Mo
Mrs C. Close
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Wm W Wells
Waterbury
Vermont
for Maj Wm Wells
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James Young
Godfrey PO
Madison Co Ills
Anthony Young
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[diary written back to front upside down]
Morning
Wednesday Octr 8th 1862
Lay on our arms all night in the field the cannon roar in front. firing still in front & increasing all the time to noon, now on our Left Wing 12 oC the firing commences 1 oC the firing increases & it reminds one of a terriffick storm approaching 2 oC the firing increaces & now it is becoming general all along the line We are waiting for the order to go in My Company No 70 men for duty & all want to go in 3 oC 40 men We have advanced 1 mile & are in line
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our Reg has not fired a gun yet but our turn is close & as I write I feel about as cool as usual when the shot fall closer I may feel different. Both sides are now canonading rappidly & the enemy is hoalding their own better then in the forenoon & there is no such thing as counting & the shots & volley after volley of the Infantry & we are ordering up our amunition wagons 4½ oC Now we go in left of center
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& now we have been where it rains lead Octr 9 the morning the firing has commenced on the wright wing & we are advancing to the front in bad plight to fight as we had no watter or food yesturday & verry little sleep this is on the stream Sh[?] & near the pike south east I think of Springfield & only 36 men that can fight but they are brave as Lions
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the killed & wounded of yesturday Lieut Barber wounded in the leg or thigh Hen Bowman killed Wm Wiggins wounded Major Kilgour bad Jacob Cohenour Israel Slater & Fred Mazeran & Martin France G Sherman concussion
10¼ oC We have advanced 2 miles & the firing is not so brisk The firing has seased & we are advancing & the enemy scedadls
Octr 10th We have slept on the field on the enemys side & hundreds lay on all sides wounded
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dying & dead. We have sent back 40 men from our Regiment to bury our ded & see to the wounded We can walk for rods on their guns & clothing & under the trees the miny balls lay like acorns The Illinois 59 went in 350 & now left 176 The 5th Wisconsin battery mowed them down Barney McGrady, John Goddell Brave men
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Octr 14th 1862
below Danville 75 in another battle & held the ground & drove the enemy & thank God I have been able to bee with them all the time
Novr 4th 1862
We leave Bolingreen at 11 oC & there appears to be a large army mooving out & in one of the streets the Cavelry attempt to brake thrugh our ranks & we ware orderd to fix baynets for a charge when they gave way
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Same date we passed lost River on the way to Nashville
Novr 5th 1862 We start at 7 oC south & will cross the line into Tennessee by night 2 miles from camp the ladies come to the doors and talked to us as we passed & held the American Flag in their hands & on a mile farther was a likeness of Washington in large frame & the flag flying. Flags are common to day along the road & some of the buildings are very fine mantions & the land level
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Nov 5th at 1½ oC PM we pass thrugh Franklin the County town of Simpson County & it is a pretty town but all the stores are shut up & lots of Butternutts stand around
Novr 6th 1862
Camped last night in Tenesee for the first time & are now marching for Nashville the roads good & last night stormy & coald but not much rain. yesturday the wind blew a gale dust in clouds & the fire
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raged fire in the fences & timber Now we get good water to drink to night we are within 20 miles of Nashville
7th 1862
this morning Co F, D, & B detailed to return to Mitchellvill as guard for the Provision Train & I take comand this day we ride & the weather coald Distance 18 miles
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Novr 27th 1862
Last night I was on Brigade picket duty 3 Companies out east of Nashville 2 & ½ miles Nothing of special interest transpired I had dinner with a Southeren tonight man 3 ladis at the table & we had a chat
Dcr 9th 1862 Strike tents & move south east from our camp 4 miles south of Nashville & are now 6 or 7 miles SE of Nashville
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Dcr 24th 1862
Strike tents & load the teams but dont move up to 12 oC noon & then move out south 3 or 4 miles & back to camp & sleep in dog tents
25 forrage train go south 9 or 10 miles & back no fighting but fire 4 canon shot & no reponce 26 orders to move at daylight which order was strictly obeyed & it rained furiously all day & at noon we commenced
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Nolinvill
fighting & continued until dark we took one big gun a few horses & several prisoners & at night I was sent front in charge of five Companys on pickett & it rained the most of the night nothing of interest transpired
This is the 3d night that I lost sleep & we expec to march this morning
Dcr 27th 1862 The canon are sounding & we are marching but to day there is 2 other Division in ahead
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Sharadens & Sills Gen Kirks Brigade passed by early this morning H Benner is in our lines to day & says they are all well at 2 oC it begins to rain & rains in torrent to night we are all wet to the hide & mud to the knees & fighting in front all day. at night we killed pigs hogs & calfs as we ware out of rations the boys ware shooting on all sides at hogs and the officers said nothing
Dcr 28th 1862
This is a beautifull day clear & bright
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& we are remaining in camp & resting & waiting for rations to come forward we can get meat ourselvs on the ground but we need salt & bread Also sugar
Monday Dcr
29th 1862 11 oC AM
We are now resting in a seeder forrest 10 miles from Murfeys Borrow we are sending prisners to the rear as we did at Perrysville The seeder trees are as green as summer here Gen Stanly comes with his body guard
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Now we march on & at sundown we get to little town where there has been fighting to day & we are in line of battle & dont even pitch our little dog tents or shelter tents it rains in the night & we get up at three oC & stand to our arms & no fire allowed for cooking our coffee
Dcr 30th In the morning we have fire & get breakfast & start on Murfeys Borrow thrugh muddy fields & in line of battle about all the time Continues to rain
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Canons roar in front & on the wright & left This morning I saw lots of cactus or prickly pare along a creek bottom & it looks good for living all winter 75th expect to fight Co D No 25 fighting men all told this is a small Co at 3 oC we get in to the fight where there is a verry heavy front & flank fire & fight to dark night get a few men wounded & lay down at night on a few seder brush & no fire to cook with
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& in the morning rise at day brak & commence fightin & retreating & between 10 & 11 oC I was taken prisoner togather with 60 or 70 others from our Brigade I have not seen Lieut J E Cobby since last evening before dark he has bolted I fear.
Dcr 31st The fighting is going on strong on both sides at this time 12 oC noon & I am now in the courthouse at Murfeys Borrow & have been stripped of my sword & pistol
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General Willich is in the room with me & many others of the commission officers
there is now at 1½ oC 30 of our officers in this room & perhaps this is the bulk so far 3½ oC there is now in the Court House 39 of our officers & we will start for Chatanuga at 4 oC & there is 12 or 15 hundred privates in court yard to be paroled & more coming in
We ride all night no sleep or food
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& we are 24 hours on the road in box cars We fill one car & rebel wounded fill 6 more in this train. there is 1600 privates in the court yard
Jany 1st 1863 We pass over a very rough country & reach Chatanoga at 4 oC & dont get any supper until after 10 oC at night. Sleep in house & have fire 700 prisoners come in during the night from Murfeys Borrow of our men & they are under guard in one part of the town & we in another & we may not get to see them
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Shoe blacking 5cts at home & here they charge us $1.00 Whiskey $5 per qt Coffee $2.00 we expect to go to Richmond
Jany 2nd 1863 5 oC PM We take the cars under a strong guard for Atlanta Georgia passing Dalton Marietta & other towns & arive at Atlanta 3 oC AM & marched in to 3d story of a brick building & there guarded & not allowed to go out only to the privy & there are 30 of the rebel sick in the same room but in the morning they are removed & 18 more officers of our stamp sent in
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making 57 Federal officers in one room & our first meal is a bread pan full of corn bread & biscuit & one tray of beef all good but not enough for the no of men this is our first meal in Atlanta Jany 3d 1863 rather a fine town & here it is common to work a single ox in the shafts, niggers do the work here. Rations corn bread & beef & scarce at that
Jany 4th 1863 Sunday 11 more officers come in to our room from Murfeysboro
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& amongst them Blodgett Monday morning Jany 5th 1863 there is 15 or 18 hundred prisoners in front of our quarters on their way to the cars, where they are going we dont know. There is a rumor that Bragg is falling back Glorious news. 3 oC PM 7 more prisoners come in & say Bragg is falling back & we have Murfeysboro & then Col Stewart steps out & we give 3 cheers for the Union
Jany 6th 1863
More prisoners come in this
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morning but the rebel flag is at ½ mast & they look sad something is rong
Jany 7th 1863
2 oC PM & no breakfast yet the Southren Confedracy is about played out. I had a little coffee that I took from the battlefield at Mur-Borrow & now when I make a cup of coffee the officers ask me to save for them the grounds so that they can have a cup. this is hard for US Colonels
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there are lots of teams in town to day with wood corn husks cabbage turnips &c
Jany 8th 1863
This morning all our fellow prisoners that was sent on have been brought back & are out in camp back of this town. There was something prevented their getting off home & this will stop us from sending letters home for the present Col Moore of the 104 Regt is now in the room 7 oC he come
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up to me & introduced himself very familiar is a fine looking fellow & brave captured at Hartsville
Jany 9th 1863
The Union prisoners are coming in & going out of Atlanta each day the news from Vixburg seems to unstring the nervs of the Confedracy Lt Col Dunn of Inda is here a prisoner
Sunday Morning
Jany 10th 1863 this is a beautifull morning & the church bells are ringing for morning service We have one testament in the prison I get a
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to use that the owner has 2 ball holes in left leg. there is one of our number quite sick at present. Fine carriages driving to church, one of our Yankey guns captured at Murfeys boro went of on friday morning in this city & killed a rebel Capt good on the gun
Monday Morning
Jany 11th 1863 this morning we learn that the small pox is in the adjoining building & this disturbs us a little We have got used to bulletts & shell but smallpox is awfull & now the prison
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is reported to be on fire & I can see & smell the smothered smoke but let it burn & we will get out of this prison & any thing for a change. up to this date we have had rice & buscuit once & bull broth twice & at all other meals beef & corn bread & I am getting fat on that but it scowers some of the men very much a darkey has come in to the room with our washing I had taken of my drawrs & shirt & wore my overcoat in order to get them washed the shirt is spoiled & the drawrs lost
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& this cost me 20 cts the fire is out & we are in, bad luck.
Jany 13th 1863
This is a warm morning and all things are about as usual in this prison all our windows are nailed up but one & the prison smells bad eating cooking washing sleeping & smoking and chewing all in one room makes it very offencive & we will soon reach that point at which we can exclaim Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death. The wounded are doing as well as can be expected
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Jany 14th 1863 noon J H Blodgett is not well there he sits by the fire toasting bread on a stick the man next to him is reading the testament next Major FitsSimons is making hash with beef onions & corn bread & he paid 50cts for 12 small onions & makes his hash in a tin cup & that is as black as the ace of spades. Next Capt Edgerton & his Lieut of Ohio Battery they are both reading The next groop are playing chess. Next groop are playing cards the next man is making mush in a tin cup & 2 or 3 looking on
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The next is Wescot wounded he is eating his corn bread Next groop of 3 is Major Trainer of Ky Lt Col Dunn of Indiana & Hollister of Ohio they are eating a good meal for this place & the nigger that brought it in is sitting on the floor with them. Next Lt Col Swanwick of Ia arm broken next Capt Wheeler Me Preacher Next 5 German officers Capton & 4 Lieut Next groop playing cards, next 3 reading Next 3 standing at the door waiting for guards to take them out Next three sick Next 4 playing cards
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Next 7 talking & looking thrugh the bars in to street, Next 3 reading Next man making a spoon out of a pine sliver split from the mantle piece Next 5 in center of the room 4 playing cards one reading the paper we have 6 chairs to 65 men 1 to 10 not enough 2½ oC here comes the dinner beef corn bread & a pail of burnt rice soop I am one of the detail to day on ration & must cut the meat & divide the soop eating is a lively time. Men that would not eat this & are in our camp are glad to get it now
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Jany 15th 1863
Last eve 8 oC they had quite a fire close by us that lighted up the city better than gass for an hour or two & there was other alarms in the night. We get very little news from the north This morning they have taken us down stairs in order to scrub our prison which is verry filthy & lots of vermin. Gen Willich told me this morning that they ware on him by whole familys big & little. We are now in a stone room on the ground floor
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Jany 16th 1863
Last night was a coald night for this climate & it is spitting snow yet this morning and the citizens are talking of going farther south as this is two coald a climate I soald my overcoat this morning at $15 cost me 3 dollars I had no money & this gave me a lift & purchased a little molases at 1.00 per qt & butter at 1.25 per # & sweet potatoes at 2.40 bush eggs at 70cts doz onions 1.00 dozen Coffee $4.00#
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Saturday Jany 17th 1863
last night we went to bead with a good fire & I lay on the floor with my feet close to the hearth & lots of others & about midnight the mantle caught fire & being pitch pine the flame & smoke filled the room & the alarm was given and one German sprung to his feet & gave one of the most unearthly yells that was ever heard & all sprung to their feet in confusion and some broke for the door there was water in the room & we soon put the fire out & went to sleep
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Sunday Jany 18th 1863
This morning we held a meeting of which I had the honour of being President & Lt Hall of Michigan Sect and voted to establish a library. Apt A Burwick Librarian, we contributed in money & books $16. We will now have 2 daily papers of the Confedracy stamp We also elected Major FitsSimmons officer of the day & 5 men to see to rations fire water sweeping &c There is an order against playing cards on the Sabbath which is tolerably observed.
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Jany 19th 1863 [?] 26 degrees above zero & this is a very coald morning. 18 dgs above zero is as coald weather as they have had here since 1854 & one citizen told me that 50 miles south it was perpetual spring & summer
This morning I paid 70 cents for ¼# butter eggs this morning 6¼ ea Major Miller is officer of the day for Monday Forrest has been whiped by our troops as they admitt in their own papers
This evening
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General Willich adressed us on military matters in this way we spent the evening very pleasantly
Tousday Jany 20th 1863
the weather has moderated during the night & it is now raining fast & bids fair for a days rain. There is now a mule team passing with flower potts in it & white pink & red roses in full bloom they look beautifull as the rain patters on them Yesturday I purchased a quart coffee pot at $2.00 & I burn corn bread & make coffee
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To day I serve on committee with Col Shankler & Major Hall to provide literary entertainment for tomorrow night. We are now jumping the broomstick for exercise I am so fat that I make a poor out. 7 oC PM supper is not come in yet & we have a few good singers in the croud & they are singing Mary to the Saviours tomb.
Many in one Star Spangled Banner & now the Doxology
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Wednesday Jany 21st 1863
We are yet in prison & nothing new to record except that very early this morning the men could not get out back for the want of guards & one man eased himself on the floor & was punished by being put in a dark sell for 1 hour & this without any proof that he was the man. Blodgett is better & my mess-mate Capt Thos Whiting is complaining. Gen Willich is speaking again this evening and the exercises close with singing the Star Spangled Banner
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Thursday Jany 22nd 1863
This is a clear warm morning like May (On the battlefield at Murfeysborrow Wednesday morning before we commenced firing Jos McDonald come to me holding his head & showed me where a spent ball struck him on the cheak bone. at the time I was buttoning up my pants)
I went down stairs to day & at the back of the building I asked the Sargent of the guard to let me chop a few sticks of wood for exercise he said no & called
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me a G.D. Abolitionist that had come here & ruined his country & that they had us now & he would wait on us. I said nothing but passed in to the back house & when I come out I said Mr Sutherner may I carry up a few sticks of wood to make a fire. he said no not a stick that he had chopped but said pointing to another man that was chopping I could take of that I then asked the other man to let me chop but the first man said no he should not Then I commenced talking
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& said that no gentleman would abuse & insult a prisoner when he had him in his power & disarmed with baynetts pointing from all directions at him & should he fall into my hands I would treat him far different but I was willing to meet him on the field with sword or gun & take the chances
Apples are selling here at from 75 cents to $2 per dozen Here comes a visiter well dressed in citizens clothes & glasses on I suppose he wants to see the Yankey prisoners but they pay no attention to him
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Now in comes a boy with papers & the reading commences. Next we pull off our shirts & drawers & commence killing lice this on warm days is attended to twice a day & then we scratch at nights
Friday Jany 23d 1863
this is another verry fine day & there is more than usual stir on the streets ladies walking in all directions & in all manner of costume, black & white, Boys of all sorts & sizes bare footed & with shoes on, men of all colours & occupations auction on 2 corners selling salt
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at 30 cts per # (& this is low to what it has soald at) Also horses & perhaps niggers & lots of covered wagons from the country with truck & barter the teams are oxen & mules & each ox has a line on as we drive horses. this eve Gen Willich talks again on military subjects
Saturday Jan 24th 1863
this is another splendid morning. the address last night was good it referred to the manouvering of Companys, Regiments Brigades & Divisions this is good pass time in prison
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About 5 oC last evening my bones commenced aking Also my head in fact I aked all over all night & to day I feel very feeble & have quite a cough & am keeping quiet
Jany Sunday 25th 1863
this morning I feel verry poorly my throat is quite sore & I think I may have to get it burnt. Capt Hobbs had 2 Bros come to see him one from Dalton & one Augusta & Lieut Tompson had an uncle come to see him he gave him clothes shirt drawrs pants &c
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Monday Jany 26th 1863
My throat is wors this morning but I feel better in other respects. this day is passing about as usual Tompsons uncle is under arrest for his friendship to his nephew this evening Capt Edgerton of the first Ohio Battery entertained us by reading Shakespeer which he done in the very best of stile & closed with Longfellow on the Flag Skedadle
Tus Jany 27th 1863
it is raining this morning & rough weather at daylight this morning
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four of our officers & 12 or 15 men all prisoners that was left at Chattanooga wounded to bad to go on at the time the officers will remain with us & the men go on to ricmond this PM I am not so well the Surgeon says I have the mumps my jaw is verry much swolin
Wednesday Jan 28 1863
It is six months since I entered the service of the US I am no better this morning Sharp pane in my head & throat much swolen all round
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Thursday Jany 29th 1863
No better still in the Surgeons hands. Yesturday we had a big storm snowed all the afternoon & at night you could see a little snow on the wagon covers the ballance had melted
Fr Jany 30th 1863
it is moderating to day & I am sick
Jany Sat 31st 1863
I think I feel better this morning 16 or 18 chained & brought in this morning from east Georgia
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in the mountains they appear to be a kind of Union party on their own hook if so God help them on
Feby 9th 1863
I am better this morning I have not cep the run of time for a week or so as I had the mumps verry bad & it settled in my groin giving me pain & requiring great care to prevent the taking of more cold The night before last there was 2 men broke out of this prison & I hope they have got away
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they ware none of our officers but of their own folks. the weather has been coald for a number of days & snow on the ground but it is now moderating. Capt T Whiting of 89 Regt Ills RR has been verry kind to me all the time making toast coffee rice mush &c & waiting on me all the time. I owe him a debt of gratitude
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Feby 10th 1863
to day they are putting a high fence all around the prison when this
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is up we will get a little more are & exercise.
I forgot to mention that we had preaching in the prison by a Baptist Minister on last Saturday
Feby 11th 1863
The fence is nerly finished 2 more prisoners come in this morning & one of those that escaped is back
Feby 12th 1863
We hope to get over the lines this month as we are getting raged & dirty
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Friday Feby 13th 1863
We are still in our prison in Georgia & very little of interest going on We have a few books to read & chess checkers & cards is the other varieties of amusement I am getting better & the wounded are doing well Lt Col Swanwick is begining to use his arm a little O but I long to be delivered from this prison & get back to America where I can get a few clean clothes & get rid of the lice which are a very great nuicence to us all
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4 oC PM We have had preaching again to day by the same Baptist man we all like him his text was Jesus weaping over Jerusalem. The audiance was verry attentive & sollem and serious. William H. Robberts is the name of our preacher
Saturday Feby 14th 1863
all things about as usual. My arm is about well where I was vaxinated The weather is cloudy & rains often they say spring will soon open & so it looks
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Sunday Feby 15th 1863
No news from home yet & the Southern papers are poor things all in them is lies or big stories
Monday Feby 16th 63
I had fried mush for breakfast this morning & it tasted firstrate. I am on the second floor. The prisoners in the third story have a dance now each night they have bought a violin at a cost of 10 or 12 dollars & go in on their revue
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Tusday Feby 17th 1863
it is raining yet & coald. We have fire & this morning for the first time I had a slice of steak to eat & this evening I had mush & milk for supper this is grand & milk is down to 30 & 40 cts per qt this we call cheap we buy the milk & make the mush the sick is better I play checkers Col Swanwick to kill time his right arm is sound to move with
[margin] Lt Col Swanwick 22 Ills
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Wednesday Feby 18th 1863
I had fried mush & 2 eggs for breakfast this morning Eggs are down to 75 cts per doz Onions are 25 cents ea & not large at that My mess mate bought a dripping pan of the 25 cent size at home & here he paid $3.50 in this we frie the mush Yesturday one of the guards brought in a small fish (Shad) weighing two # for sale & the price $2.50 we did not purchase To day Apples are $9.50 per bushel by the load
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Thursday Feby 18th 1863
Cloudy & wet. Health as usual fried mush crust coffee & eggs for breakfast. 10 oC the church bell is now ringing for a funeral of a lady There is a man laying before me as yellow as safron with jaunders name Capt Canfield There is a Catholic Bishop in the prison to day (he says) from Nashville Gen Willich is getting 5 or 600.00 dollars of him I suppose for spending money for himself & others
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Friday Feby 20th 1863
The high fence around the prison is now finished & we have been down marching around the prison for exercise we are allowed out from 6 to 10 oC AM & 2 hours in the afternoon. the grounds are verry foul or this would be a privelage indeed. there are no new prisoners coming in for several days, the weather is more pleasant & planting will soon commence We now have some hope of leeving
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Saturday Feby 21st 1863
a pleasant morning & the news is that Savana is captured by our army & that the canal at Vicksburgh is being supplyed with water 12 oC M there is an auction room close to the prison and there was a negro wench soald at noon for twelve hundred dollars in Confederate funds which is equal to four hundred dollars in good funds
This is infurnal work selling thes poor ignorant beings like oxen
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Sabbath Feby 22nd 1863
Washingtons Birth day dull & cloudy We had a thunder shower last night I had fried mush & eggs for breakfast and crust coffee two of the officers commenced playing checkers this morning & I said to them that it was a violation of the rules to play on Sunday & they quit imediately Butter now selling at $1.50# Whiskey & Brandy $5.00 qt 4 in [triangle] file cost 1.50 ea We have a Bible in our room that was given by the Baptist preacher
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Rebel Gen Buford of Ky was in the prison this morning looking around. he is a large man & looks as if he used his share of brandy
Monday Feby 23d 1863
No news except prison rumor that we are a going to be exchanged soon To day they have brought a nother sick prisoner in to our room he is a citizen of tennessee & dont know what he is here for. I think he is consumpted & he is quite sick I find many odd fellows here amongst the prisoners
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Tusday Feby 24th 1863
Things are about as usual a few more prisoners coming in. I am still in the sick room & I retire at 9 oC Some of them sleep in the daytime & then tell big stories till verry late in the night & in this way disturb others so last night when I heard the watchman cry 10 oC I pitched in to them & gave them a blowing up and in 10 minutes I had them all in bead & the lights out they all kept laughing at me for sending them to bead
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Wednesday Feby 25th 1863
Mush & eggs for breakfast & mush & milk for supper bull beef & corn cake for diner The prisoners are in great glee as the news is pretty clear that we will start for Richmond tomorrow May the Lord grant us a safe journey to the white settlements and away from this Southeren prison. We hear that they are throwing shell in to Vicksburg & old Rosecran is pressing on Bragg or Johnson at Talahona and Savanna & Charleston are threatened
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Thursday Feby 26th 1863
We are all astir to day preparatory to a start at 6 oC to night. Washing our canteen socks feet & packing our haversacks. The old Baptist man Roberts preached to us today at eleven of text first Psalms. Part of the prisoners left the room on ofc of something he said in a former discourse I think there was no cause for anger
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Friday Feby 27th 1863
this morning finds us in Augusta Georgia We road in box cars all night but little sleap 2 or 3 miles from here & we are in South Carolina Augusta is a place of some importance lighted with gass and a population 18 thousand. Heavy rain all night & raining this morning I can see a tree from where I stand in the depot out in full bloom & the grass is green & fit for pasture
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The willow trees are out in leaves I can see from depot a Presbyterian Baptist & Catholic Church & there are 2 cotton factorys. The depot is a good building Also the Freight House There are from 12 to 15 hundred men & wemen to work in the two factorys. Steamers can run up to this city on the Savanna River. The prisoners have a little liberty to day as we have to wait to 7 oC PM & a few of them are getting beautifully drunk
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The niggers boys & men gather around to see what the Abolishes look like Callico is 3.00 per yd this is Richmond County The Methodist Church is on green street. Many of the men are lying around in depot asleep or resting & lots of them have the prison itch 6 oC we have now marched thrugh the city 1 mile & are in the Carolina cars & will start 7.20 oC we had a chance to see the city it is a pretty place & there has been a big fire an acre or two burnt over
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Saturday Feby 28th 1863
Road all night in South Carolina & are now nearing the North Carolina line We changed cars 2 or 3 times, what peach & plumb trees there are along the road are in bloom all along the road. it is swampy or sand barrens with plenty of pitch pine straight & tall 1 oC We have crossed the Big & Little Pedee Rivers & all along here they manufactor tar turpentine & rosin we stopped at one factory & there was lots of gum & a thousand bbls of rosin
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five miles more and we are in North Carolina We have passed to day a few very large plantations & lots of niggers men & women ware at work on the farm in the rain & mud 5½ oC We are now crossing the Brunswick river a muddy stream of some size. there is a moss grows on the trees that is used for matrasses it is yards in length & very plenty Cape fear River at Wilmington NC There is five hundred miles of this rout lined with pitch pine timber Wilmington is close to the cost
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Sunday March 1st 1863
We road all night & are now in Weldon NC and are in the cars for Petersburg Virginia & if we have no bad luck will reach Richmond by 6 oC PM. By the time we get thrugh the lines we will be worn out & need rest The first bite of ration we got since we left Atlanta they gave us this morning ½ bbl crackers & 2 shoulders we left Weldon at noon & reached Petersburg at 4 oC PM Marched thrugh the 1¼ miles to the
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Richmond Depot & started for Richmond passing thrugh the fort & brestwork & reached the city about dark and marched to the Libby Prison and stoped where we met 20 prisoners of our own rank and here as we are prisoners we ware furnished 2 blanketts ea & camped for the night & this is the first chance for sleep for several nights. No misshaps on the journey & all the sick and wounded stood the trip well & are doin well
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Monday March 2nd 1863
This morning we arise refreshed with sweet sleep, have plenty of good watter to wash with & to drink & they furnish us with ½ a loaf of bread and a bit of beef for breakfast. We have no liberty out of the room. This is a city of 70 or 75 thousand people. We are now in the same prison in which the brave & gallant Coccoran spent his time in the early part of the war 6 oC PM in comes 11 Pa Cavalry officers & 169 men all from Pennsylvania
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Tusday March 3d 1863
this morning we get the Richmond papers there is a little news from the white settlements & we expect to cross the lines this week Things are very high in this city sugar 1.00# Dried apples 75cts# Molases from $10 to $13 per gallon Coffee $5 per # Rye coffee 50 cts paper about 1# Butter $2.20 Eggs $1.75 per doz pepper 50 cents per oz Pipes of the verry common stamp 25 to day my bowells are troubling me Sow belly $1.25# Lard $1.40#
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Wednesday March 4th 1863
I feel no better this morning & stay in bead until nine oC A.M. I then eat a piece of toast & a little soup After breakfast there a little incident occurred in the room in the way of a law suit about a louce that had crawled from one blankett from to another. Capt Blood of the 4th Pa Cavelry acting as judge & General Willich was foreman of the jury & very able attourney was employed on each side
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the trial lasted two hours or more and was a splendid affair all enjoyed a good laugh except the prisoner who was sentanced 2 year in penatentiary in Atlanta Ga & fined one hundred dollars & cost of suit.
We have an old file or two & with these we are whittling all the shank bones that we get out of the beef into rings brest pins & various other articles this we do to kill time
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Thursday March 5th 1863
The Surgeon sent me in 3 pills yesturday & I am better today one of our party was sent back to Atlanta for some cause or other his name was Abele Capt of a Cavalry Company from Indiana The bone workers are all busily engaged at work. We have verry little knowlage of what is going on in this city as we cannot talk with the guards & not allowed to pass out of our room
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Friday March 6th 1863
We dont live as well here as we did at Atlanta neither is the room as pleasant, but we expect to leave for the white settlements tomorrow Colonels Captons and Lieutenants are busily at work killing lice Brisk scurmishing of this kind occurs every day all along the lines. The weather is cool in richmond but no snow. there is news in the prison that the truce boat is at City Point & will leave for our lines at 9 oC tomorrow morning
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Saturday March 7th 1863
We are here yet & no one in the room knows when we will leave for America (Shot in August is selling at 2.50#)
I am no better this morning & have sent out for the Surgeon of the prison & he sends me to the prison hospital in the east side of the same building a room 50 by 90 feet & beads for fifty persons & only 30 persons here. a few verry sick & others like myself. this is a better place then in the prison I passed
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thrugh the office & registered my name & rank had a chat there & then passed to my quarters I have a bunk and clean bedding good light bread beef & soup there are citizens in the prison that have been here for a year & more & they speak of varmin till your blood boils The weather is again warm & showery here in this room we have one canon stove & this is enough as the cooking is done below by a gang of darkeys that are locked up at night
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Sunday March 8th 1863
Since midnight there has been & very heavy thunder shower I am as well as yesturday but I slept very little last night as there is a crazy dutchman here that made lots of noise 2 oC PM the German is dying 8 feet to my wright & 6 or 7 of the prisoners are standing around his cot. I am in bead with a big mustard plaster on my bowells that burns furiously They have born the German to the dead house
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Monday March 9th 1863
another pleasant morning dawns upon us. in prison yesturday there was 2 old Quaker gentlemen sent to this prison one of them has been in prison sixteen months. he is a true Union man We get breakfast in here at 9 oC and the Dr has ordered me toast & tea. The toast is good but the tea poor stuff Here comes a prisoner coughing from another room He is one of the crew of the Collumbia that was run ashore near Wilmington Names of old men Pancoast & Kenady has a Bro in Philadelphia
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10 oC AM I have been on the scales & my weight is 135# a falling off of 15# or more since I have been sick. There is a tide in the James River as far up as here of 1 or 2 feet & this is 100 miles by the river from the coast I see from the paper that choice butter is $3.25 per # Surgeon Wilkins of the prison hospital is now in the room & appears to be very attentive to us. There is a verry spry catt that stays in this room & we feed her & on Satturday night Col Swanwick
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found a mouse in one of his boots and we called the cat and had a gay old time with them but not equal to the louse trial
Tusday March 10th 1863
I feel pretty well to day & think that my disentary is checked. It is sleeting snowing & raining and is a verry gloomy day I am bathing and washing my little ticking towell hankerchief & socks. The Dr has quit giving me medicine & is permitting me to eat meat.
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Wednesday March 11th 1863
All as well as usual but me, about midnight my complaint returned & I dont feel as well There was a large fire in this city last night burning government & state property to the amt of one million of money & the Rothchilds of Eng lost 2 thousand H[?] tobacco in the fire The fire lighted up the city ½ the night. I will try & submit to it if all the city goes the same road Libby Prison included
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Thursday March 12th 1863
I feel better this morning Slept well last night To day they bring in 4 more prisoners Cavelry from Philadelphia captured at Winchester I must say a word about our tables & table furniture as this is about the first we have had The table is a stand 16 inches square on the top nailed togather of comon boards & one to 2 bunks & knife & fork plate spoon and tin cup, food bread meet soup & rye coffee
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Friday March 13th 1863
not as well this morning I pass some blood & feel weak & helpless. There was 4 more prisoners arived last evening from up about winchester all Cavelry. There is quite a town oposite the prison on the other side of the river called Manchester there appears to be a goodeal of manufactoring going on The river is verry high but falling this morning
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Saturday March 14th 1863
I am better this morning but will never feel all wright until I get out of this We expect the truce boat tomorrow & then part of the prisoners at least will soon get off. There was a sailor prisoner brought in last eve captured near Charleston on the boat Isaac Smith a gun boat his right arm shot of at the elbow He is a fine looking fellow
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Sunday March 15th 1863
all things about as usual the weather is moderating but is cool for this place There is one man lying close by me that is shot thrugh the lungs & is now doing well and I think he will recover he was brought here by stage & cars after he was wounded
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Monday March 16th 1863
all as usual this morning There was 5 or 6 of our fellow prisoners come in from Atlanta this morning & ware verry much astonished to find us here and now expect to go when we do I hope they may as a long stay must be the death of many They have not got medicine suited to all the cases No truce boat yet but it is expected all the time and then part of the prisoners will get off for the North
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Tusday March 17th 1863
no marching orders yet for officers but the citizens will all get off in the morning & Oh how overjoyed they seem & act in view of their deliverance from this house of bondage part of them have been here 19 months It is joy enough for me to see them leave. 1 oC PM one old man has died out of the no that was going North
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March Wednesday 18th 1863
The citizen prisoners left at 4 oC this morning lot of them men that have lay on the bead for weeks got up & walked of Well they ware so cean to start that they forgot their sickness but I fear the trip will two much for some of them but I think they would rather die on the road then here. one of the ministers was in yesturday and spoke to the prisoners
your ring is finished.
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Thursday March 19th 1863
all verry still in the hospital prison since the citizens started & we have plenty of room & more rations I bot a pint of milk this morning price 37½ cts I cant tell wheather the taste is the strongest of money or milk Col Swanwick bought this morning one # Coffee $4.50
We saw the first Northern papers last evening that we have seen since we ware prisoners the Surgeon handed them to us
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Friday March 20th 1863
Snow storm. It commenced snowing last eve and is snowing this morning fast & is now 8 or 10 inches deep & this we call big for 20th of March in the Sunny South & still snowing but getting warmer & may rain if so there will be verry bad roads so that the armey cannot move for a time Provisions continue to advance & money to depretiate so that a man will have need of a pocketfull to buy a meal
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Saturday March 21st 1863
all that are left in this hospital are better except one man and he is getting worse It snowed in the night & makes a big storm. Corn meal is $6.50 bush there is 18 or 20 more wounded men come in from near Franklin Tennessee & 10 or 11 hundred prisoners that are not wounded The Southren papers say a goodeal about Illinois and Indiana making a compromise with them I guess not as they have over 200 Regiments in the field & more to come
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Sunday March 22nd 1863
The wounded men that come in yesturday morning are all better. it is now 10 oC & they got their wounds dressed & have been sleeping all the time since they ware worn out. This PM Capt Turner Comd of the prison come in to the prison with the Surgeon & 3 gentlemen When they got opposite where we officers ware they stopped and talked one of the gentlemen a teacher in an acadamy said he had 7 teachers & hoped god would forgive him for it & also remarked that the accomodations was better then we deserved
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Monday March 23d 1863
Nothing out of the usual course transpiring this morning except there is a young man dying that was brought here yesturday nearly dead & this is comon as they capture our men and in moving them over the country togather with exposure and fatigue they are too far gon when they get here to recover In fact the last 25 men that come in ware all verry near used up 10½ oC AM another of the last prisoners has just died
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To day I asked permission to go to the officers room Capt Turner refused me the favour
Tusday March 24th 1863
J Persol died this morning of the same lot that died yesturday this makes 3 of that batch There was also 17 privates come into this room this morning & 22 officers & 1 or 2 hundred privates that went into other rooms The Libby Prison is again verry full but we look for the truce boat up tomorrow & then lots of them will be sent off There are other
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prisons here where our men are confined one called Castle Thunder, Castle Lightning and Castle Booker
Wednesday March 25th 1863
Another man died this morning & 2 or 3 more I think will soon follow. there is one thing peculiar about the deaths in the prison so far as I have seen they pass off without a groan or struggle & often lying on their sides. The season is much more backward here then down at Atlanta although
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the fields are looking green on the Manchester side of the river the late snow seems to have had the affect of a shower of rain
Thursday March 26th 1863
Another died this morning & there are 4 or 5 more verry sick The Jas River is very high & rising over in Manchester Many of the buildings are in the water & may float If our fleet was all ready they might get up to this city by this freshett
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Friday March 27th 1863
No truce boat yet This is a day of fasting & prayer for the Confedracy I think this becomes them more then what they are at most of the time. There are yet 6 or 7 verry sick men in this prison the river is falling this morning We can see from the window persons winding their way to church. The morning papers say that we had another gun boat sunk at Vicksburg on 25th 2 more men have died I am ordered back to officers quarters
one more man dead
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Saturday March 28th 1863
One death this morning most of the sick are as well as yesturday. I returned this morning to the officers room in which is 214 officers 2 of them Generals one Gen Willich & Gen Stouten [sic] there are many that have come in since I went to hospital and I dont know their names. One of the strangers has just handed me a cup of coffee for which I feel greatfull There is scarce room for all to lay down on the floor & warm weather will be hard on us hear
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Sunday March 29th 1863
It rained hard all day yesturday and is coald this morning our quarters are in the garrett of Libby Prison. There are 5 church members of us now sitting togather in a kind of class meeting. it continues cold Gen Sombody is in the prison and says we will soon all be exchanged. our supply of water in the prison has failed & we will have to go to bead dry
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Monday March 30th 1863
Quite coald this morning & we have neither wood or water & have to cook our own meals. But they are all astir about going home Here comes the Surgeon & is picking 11 of the most feeble ones to send in the morning
There is in the prison one Ostrean Baron who was taken with General Stoaten [sic] He has been visiting the Army & got his foot in the trap
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Tuesday March 31st 1863
3 oC Morning. Glory I am one of the lucky 13 out of 214 officers that is in libby prison garrett & I am off for City Point at 5 oC AM there are also five to seven 816 hundred privates with us & we are now out in the mud & rain starting to the cars Rains & snows all morning & cold 12 oC M we are now at City Point & safe on board our own boat State of Main
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& the feelings of the men & officers can not be described 1 oC the boat now moves Hail Collumy we are out of Hell
The Truce Flag streaming from the bow & the Stars & Stripes aft of the boat There are verry formidable fortifications on the river bank 2 oC the privates are now gettin food & the Capt says that we will soon. We are now passing James Town the oldest town in the States it has been burned to the ground 5 oC PM we are
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now passing New Port News in Js R & are in the midst of our blockading squadron to our left is one of the monators & further out is the Minasota & further to the right is the gallina & many others of lesser note We can see the masts of the wrecked Cumberland & Congress above water We have now stopped at our Flagship Minisota & the officer is on board examining our papers
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it is yet 8 miles to fortress Monroe We are off again for Monroe & will get there by dark 6½ oC We are up to the peer at Fortress Monroe & have a view of the fortress & the big Union gun & a fleet of war vessels all around. I have just come up of the lower deck I have been talking with the men they are in good spirits & have plenty to eat & say they would rather fight a week for Uncle Sam then
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stay a day in the Confederacy
9 oC PM we will soon start for Anapolis This eve we get the Northern papers
Wednesday April 1st 1863
this is my first trip on the broad waters & I begin to feel sea sick but we will get off before noon & I may escape. O I wish you could ride up this Bay with me it is a splendid sheet of water & the senery is fine
10 oC AM we have had the morning meal ham bread & Lincon coffe & here comes a man with
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a box of cegars all gratis. Part of the men are sea sick & put on long faces I feel better. It would amuse any one since the men have got something to eat in going to the privy they form in line & await their turn & then the man next to the door will sell out his chance as high as 25 cents & he falls in at the rear 2½ oC we land at Anapolis one man died on the trip up
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Anapolis MD
Thursday Apl 2nd 1863
400 more of our privates came up from Richmond this morning I visited this morning the State House wher Washington resigned his commission as Commander in Chief. The house is very ancient & I was at the military school. There stands the popular tree 25 ft 8 inches girt & where Washington had a public dinner. Many of these old buildings are english brick as old as any in this country the men are getting new clothes to day.
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Friday Apl 3d 1863
this is a brite morning I have been out at the sematry this morn & today I called on Col Shangster who is in comand here & inquired what was being don for us. he enquired where we ware staying I told him at McCulla's Hotell he then asked who sent us there & I told him Maj Everett who receipted for us to the truce boat He then said he had told the Major to send us out to Parole Camp I replied we have recd no such orders
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when he remarked that he had given the Provo Marshell to bring us the camp as he had got the impression we had gon to Hotell without orders But when I stated the case he revoked the order to the Marshall & we are yet at the Hotell
Satd Apl 4th 1863
It is coald this morning. Col Shangster has gon to Baltimore to day to see what is to be done with us
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there is a military funeral to day
Sun Apl 5th 1863
Nothing of interest to day
Monday Apl 6th 1863
This morning we are ordered west I will go to St Louis
Apl 11th we are in Olney Illinois on the Ohio & Miss RR Dinner at Odin at the Odin House
[?] 30 miles to St Louis
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[diagram with words Camp, Center, Division,
Division, Wood, Critend, Rissaw, Davis, Johnson, Gun Boat, Cross R., Nolenville, Nashville]
Surgeon Treadwell
Capt Perry R W
" Barnaman
" McMoone
" Wheeler
" Becker
" Duffacy
1st Lieut Snodgrass
" Hollister
" Anchons
" Fleming
" Goss
are the names of the
Exchanged Prisoners
March 31 1863
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John C Martin
Fountain Dale
Adams Co Pa
in charge of
Libby Prison Hospital
Mrs Hariett E Whiting
Walnut Grove PO
Knox Co Ills
Thos Whitin
Send $10 back
from Washington
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[notes written front to back right side up]
John H Hawver
to Suttler Dr 80cts
To J. W. Shaeffer Dr 20
John H Hawver Cr
from Chas Barnes 25
from J. M. Stearns 1.75
from A M Moore 2.00
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August SwartFager
To Expences 4.85
Carl Engal 7.85
Corporal Stauffer
Wm Stacy
Marcus Plant
Seth W Coats
Danl Reed
Danl Ingerham
E W Avrey
Jas Journey
Thos Cleminson
N W Dorrow
Chas Goodell
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Washington County Ky
3 miles from Springfield
Mrs Maryan McKroy
Sicaly & Rosyann
John Jessee McKroy
James William Thomas
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E H Johnson Post Biron
Capt Wm M Kilgaur Sterling
Capt Jas A Watson Dixon
Lee County
Capt A McMoone Sterling
Whiteside County
Capt John Bennett
Morison Whiteside Co.
Capt W. W. Mesher Port B
Capt W D Williams R I City
Capt L S Ashbaugh [?]
Capt John Whalon Lyndon
Capt Jas Williams Franklin
Lee County
Capt T G Price Sterling
Capt Wm S Frost Lee [?]
Capt G. Ryon Paw Paw
Capt A S Vorrey Amboy Lee
Capt Thos Martin R I
Capt John Morris R I
Bowen
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Capt H. S. Cline R I
Capt A. C. Groves Depage
County Winfield
Capt H. Austin Decalb
Capt J B Nash Jr DeCalb
Wick $5.00
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Order on Bounty fund
J M Stearns 26.56
Lyman Richards 11.25
J. Goodell 26.00
J M Stearns 26.56
Chas Barnes 13.00
L D Maloney to Penrose 3
Chas Goodell order 60.00
Barney McGrady 60.00
J A Ballow 60.00
J. C. Journey
L. Richards
H Brink
Hospital No 1
Nashville
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Aug 18th 1.25
19 2.50
[upside down]
Subsistance
240.00
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[scribbles]
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People - Records: 1
- (5285) [writer] ~ McMoore, Andrew McIlwain
SOURCES
Andrew M. McMoore Diary, DL1615.001, Nau Collection
