Quiet, pleasant day. I live comparatively well here, and am
quite comfortable. More prisoners come in to-day. Lieutenant-colonel Walker,
Hancock's Assistant Adjutant-general, brought in recaptured, taken first at
Reams Station; got within thirty yards of our pickets on James, which he swam.
Tells me Macy is badly hurt. I dreamt it a week ago. Patten lost a leg. Walker
was dressed in rags and filth, but how undisguisable the gentleman is. I was
very much taken with him. He knew me, but I had never seen him. Roast mutton
for dinner. I am treated with marked consideration just now for some reason or
other. The surgeon marked for me good diet.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 131-2
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