Saturday, November 26, 2016

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Thursday, August 18, 1864

Another long day, merely weary waiting; read a book on birds. I am improving still, gaining strength. Manage to get milk and eggs and apples. Wrote Agnes a few lines on scrap of paper. Rain every day now. Get no news from outside, know nothing of what is going on. I wish our government could see the suffering that their delay and quibbling about exchange is causing. Men dying every hour, reproving their government for forgetting them and letting them lie here. In Georgia it is worse.

SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, p. 127

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