Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Monday 29 Nov [1864]

X ^'day 29-' went in at
day light to see him
and he was a dying
then could not speak
but seemed to know
Me, I Stayed a while
and got a lock of his
hair and he was carried
to the dead house.
drew Bread & Soup
to day -- weather a
little warmer than
has been for some time
[The next line is lined through.]
Thos. W. Springer
Died Nov 29, about
6 am or there abouts

Sgt. James Eberhart and Sgt. Isaac Dick" Moore both survived imprisonment in Salisbury. Eberhart was paroled in Februay 1865 , reached Union lines in early March. On the 18th of March he reached his home in Pittsburgh, Penna., and wrote in his own diary "Thanks be Merciful God that brought me Home again."

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