Saturday Aug 27th [1864]

We were wakened up a little after day-
light & taken out in the same place &
counted over again. cloudy & ^'cool' signs of
rain. rained nearly all last night
At 10 A.M. they issued us our meal
Wrote a letter home this afternoon --
This is our Ninth (9) day of imprisonment --
At 3 P.M. they issued soup & Bread
[This line has been erased.]
In the evening the rebs planted two
Cannon on the hill overlooking
our camp. they are looking for a
raid. A train of cars passed over the
Bridge into Richmond loaded with
Yanks the cars loaded
with them supposed to be about
1000 or 1200