The night of the
11th a well caved in; two men asleep slid in; one was killed. Soon after coming
in, we learned that one of the dealers, or "raiders" bore the name of
Cary. He was at Belle Isle and is charged with being the cause of several deaths.
Today he was pointed out to us and we recognized Sullivan of our company (76th
N. Y.) who deserted October 10, 1863, near the Rapidan River south of Mitchell,
Va. He was a substitute from Buffalo, a "gambling, fighting, bad tempered
fellow, feared in the company. He thinks we suspect him, and tonight sends word
by Mooney, who knew him in Canada, that if we do not expose him, Company F
shall never be disturbed by raiders.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 76
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