Received two letters
to-day, one from home and one from my brother Pincus, who went to Washington on
his way to visit Morris and myself, as he has to get a pass from headquarters
before he can see us. He was refused and returned home. Our daily labor as prisoners
is that at 5 in the morning we have roll call; 6, breakfast, 500 at a time, as
one lot gets through another takes its place, until four lots have eaten; we
then stroll about the prison until 1 o'clock, when we eat dinner in the same
style as breakfast, then loaf about again until sundown. Roll is called again,
thus ending the day. We get for breakfast five crackers with worms in them; as
a substitute for butter, a small piece of pork, and a tin cup full of coffee;
dinner, four of the above crackers, a quarter of a pound mule meat and a cup of
bean soup, and every fourth day an eight-ounce loaf of white bread. Nothing
more this month.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 65
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