Prisoners arrive, 300, taken at James Island, S. C., the 3rd, belonging
to the 52nd Pennsylvania, also a squad from Virginia. Fierce lightning and
thunder in the middle of the day, the sun shining brightly, and scarce a cloud
in the sky. A Rebel paper admits the country open to Grant, and Lee in a
strait. "All we want is to be left alone," said Jeff Davis at his
inaugural. His wants will grow, like "bull pen" lice.
SOURCE: John Worrell Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a
War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864,
p. 85
