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...

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...

Nothing, only bitter cold. We dance every night at some of our [quarters]. Some of the men put a white handkerchief around one of their arms...

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...

Saw Mack Sample, Will Stone and several of our company to-day that have been prisoners since the battle of Gettysburg. We get two meals a da...

We are divided in divisions and companies. There is a thousand in each division and one hundred in each company. A sergeant commands each co...

We are guarded by negro troops, who are as mean as hell. At each meal there is a guard placed over 500 prisoners, who go to their meals in r...

Received two letters to-day, one from home and one from my brother Pincus, who went to Washington on his way to visit Morris and myself, as ...