Very warm to-night. We have had some success on the Weldon
Railroad. They have stopped our wheat bread; nothing but this coarse corn bread
for these sick men. It will kill them at a fearful rate; indeed, it is
beginning to appear in the number of corpses that are carried by my tent
to-day. Many will die to-night, the ward-master tells me. God have mercy on
their souls, and console and sustain and protect theirs at home! I had a good
dinner to-day, chicken broth. Madigan, whom I have won with the filthy lucre,
secured it for me. He is one of the cooks here. My friend Jones of the garden
brought his flour biscuits tonight. He's a trump.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 130-1
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