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Continued
May 29 & 30 1864
Rations one half loaf bread and a little mush cooked without
salt. Little stinking meal and had to eat it. Nine hundred more
prisoners from Butler. Everything taken from them. We are getting
thick here - rations one third loaf of bread.
June 1
Hard shower three hundred more prisoners-several with legs
amputated - sorry for them rations same as last night - minus
salt.
June2
Sultry weather but showers - Hundreds of poor fellows have
to stand out and take the rain, night and day not having any shelter,
rations same except salt.
June 3
Three hundred more prisoners - bring encouraging news of our
army from all quarters
June 4
Raw beans with rations
June 5
Continues to rain and very sultry - beans and dumplins for
breakfast - have a diarrhea - Ninety died to-day. Good news from
Richmond - cooked rations.
June 6
Bean soup and meal dumplins for dinner - so warm when it does
not rain there is no comfort. Flies by the million - squad went
out for wood and six got away.
June 13
Rainy day - had to cook my rice out in the rain dreamt of
home all night - thought I saw Eddie Rations the same. One hundred
and twenty-eight died the past twenty four hours.
June 14
That I should ever have to spend a birthday in such a place
as this and such a gloomy wet day - feel pretty well in body rations
of meal and meat - plenty of news to-day but not worth recording.
June 15
Four hundred prisoners from R - very unhealthy here. So wet
and so much filth though I manage to keep up pretty good courage
- rations of raw rice.
June 17
This is eighteen days in succession it has rained and most
of all are without shelter of any kind - rations of meal and salt.
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