Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Saturday Aug 20 [1864]

rained pretty much all night. About
9 AM our names were taken and
every thing but our Haversacks -- two
more squads came in this morning
altogether about 2,000. About 2 PM we
[?] squad marched to the
Depot about 3 miles from
Petersburg we arrived at the
Station at 4 P.M. (20 miles from R)
We got on open cars. Started at 4 1/2
Commenced raining and rained
until we arrived in Richmond.
we got to Richmond about 6 1/2
and was taken to a Prison on
Cary Street. The room was 100 by
40. we only had one hundred
in here tonight.

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