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John W Northrop
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Friday, July 1, 1864
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MOVE TO PRISON ANNEX—HOW WE CELEBRATE. The addition to the stockade is finished. An aperture, ten feet wide, is left in the old wall at th...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Sunday, July 3, 1864
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New prisoners report favorable progress by our armies. Yesterday there was a powerful rain lasting ten hours. In this part the soil is red a...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Monday, July 4, 1864
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Eighty-eight years this day since our fathers gave to the world that important document setting forth the immortal truth that all men are bo...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Tuesday, July 5, 1864
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We moved back to the old side, five of us, unbeknown to Rebs, it being improved by the removal of so many to the new part, and to get near t...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Thursday, July 7, 1864
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Cool nights, hot days. My complaint not so bad. I have a painful cough. From three to six shots fired nightly by sentries, so common as not ...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Friday, July 8, 1864
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Prisoners arrive, 300, taken at James Island, S. C., the 3rd, belonging to the 52nd Pennsylvania, also a squad from Virginia. Fierce lightni...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, July 9, 1864
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SCENES AMONG SICK.—RAIDERS CONVICTED. Strong these men had been; In vast army camps had duty done; Had useful service in field and for...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Sunday, July 10, 1864
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Hot, showery day, renders the condition of the sick more appalling. It is believed that more than two-thirds of the 700 men at the gate in r...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Monday, July 11, 1864
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HANGING THE CHIEF RAIDERS. SCENES AT THE EXECUTION. Building the scaffold for executing the principal raiders, began at 9 a. m. a few yard...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Tuesday, July 12, 1864
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DREADFUL DAYS DRAG ON—NIGGER IN THE EXCHANGE FENCE. A man shot through the body and killed while dipping water from the stream several fee...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Wednesday, July 13, 1864
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Corn bread, as served here, is to me what a single feather was to Paddy's head on a rock and what he thought more would be if supplied. ...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Thursday, July 14, 1864
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Report that Lee is moving forces northward; Ewell at Harper's Ferry; and a cavalry raid into Maryland. Whether this is to attract attent...
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Thursday, June 16, 1864
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The man who was deprived of his hair yesterday had taken the oath of allegiance to the "C. S. A." He wished to get 200 names—had a...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Friday, June 17, 1864
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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 ...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Monday, June 20, 1864
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Yesterday a sentry fired on a man who was attempting to kill a snake near the dead line, but missed him, the shot taking effect on four othe...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Tuesday, June 21, 1864
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At 9 o'clock another man was shot. He was crossing the swamp in the east part to go to his lodging. Attempting to clear the mud, he leap...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Wednesday, June 22, 1864
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The first day of the month that it has not rained. The man shot last night is carried out dead this morning. By trading some, we are enabled...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Thursday, June 23, 1864
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THE PRISON CLEANED OF RAIDERS.—CANDIDATES FOR HEMP. With the passing June storms, hot weather begins. Spent the afternoon with Harriman. H...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Tuesday, June 28, 1864
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The days have been continually hot since last date; rain at noon. Every day we see the extreme, nameless misery, feel that awful helplessn...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Wednesday, June 29, 1864
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More brutality and robbery. Half asleep I heard blows, groans of distress, and voices that combine the savage tones of ruffianism. One man b...
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