Monday, October 19, 2009

Wednesday Oct 19 [1864]

Up at 3 A.M. quite cool. At 9
I went to the Doctors and got
a dose of quinine. At 12^'noon' Drew
Bread (48) Meat & Rice soup.
Rawley [H. Jolliff] got into the Hospital
552 more Prisoners came in this
afternoon. Dick Moore Dan Elgen
& [W.H.] Link were among them. The
Officers were sent off this Afternoon
at 5 P.M. Had no shake today.

[Isaac A. "Dick"] Moore, [Sgt. Daniel ]Elgin and [William H.] Link were among the men who escaped from the train carrying the prisoners of war from Belle Isle to Salisbury on the night of October 6th

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