Cloudy; rained yesterday and last night. We have no important news from South Carolina, except the falling back toward Columbia of our tro...

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,...

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...

Left this morning at 11 in a tugboat, and from here packed into the Steamer S. R. Spaulding. We are now on our way to a regular prison. We g...

Dry and pleasant. We have a rumor to-day of the success of a desperate expedition from Wilmington, N. C., to Point Lookout, Md., to libera...