A chilly day.
Shortly after noon it began to rain and continued all night to which all
prisoners are exposed. Drew a little more bread and bacon, not one-half as much
as we needed. Prisoners continue to come; report our army south of
Fredericksburg having had quite a race with Lee; fighting has been almost
continuous. They report we have taken about 4,200 prisoners in the movement.
About 2,000 of our men were sent away at 9 a. m., it is supposed, to Danville.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 45
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