FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT BY COLONEL JAMES T. MOREHEAD. The duty assigned to me to write a sketch-not a history—of the Fifty-third North Caro...

Nothing, only that I fear that our cause is lost, as we are losing heavily, and have no more men at home to come to the army. Our resources ...

The smallpox is frightful. There is not a day that at least twenty men are taken out dead. Cold is no name for the weather now. They have gi...

Nothing new. It is the same gloomy and discouraging news from the South, and gloomy and discouraging in prison. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary...

I suppose the end is near, for there is no more hope for the South to gain her independence. On the 10th of this month we were told by an of...

There is nothing new up to to-day, when I received a box of eatables, one or two shirts, and one pair of pants from home. The only way we ca...

Five hundred more prisoners came in today. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 65-6

To-day, as the negro guard was relieved, two of them commenced playing with their guns and bayonets, sticking at one another. Fortunately on...

Received money to-day from home, but they gave me sutler's checks for it, as we were not allowed any money, for fear we would bribe the ...

Four hundred prisoners left here for some other prison, as there were too many here. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate ...

Engle, Riter and myself received boxes from New York to-day, but as Riter has gone to the other prison with the 400 we have made away with h...

Three hundred more were sent from here to the new prison, which is in Elmira, N. Y., myself with them. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar...

Left Point Lookout at 8 o'clock this evening in the frigate Victor for New York. There are 700 prisoners on board. SOURCE: Louis Leon,...

To-day on the ocean a great many of our boys were seasick, but not I. I was promised a guard to take me to see my parents in New York for th...

We see the Jersey shore this morning. Our vessel was racing with another. We had too much steam up; the consequence was a fire on board, but...

We were treated very good on the road, and especially at Goshen, N. Y. The ladies gave us eatables and the men gave us tobacco. SOURCE: Lo...

There are at present some 3,000 prisoners here. I like this place better than Point Lookout. We are fenced in by a high fence, in, I judge, ...

Nothing worth recording this month, except that the fare is the same as at Point Lookout. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confede...

It is very cold, worse than I have seen it in the South in the dead of winter. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldie...

We have got the smallpox in prison, and from six to twelve are taken out dead daily. We can buy from prisoners rats, 25 cents each, killed a...