Reached Bellaire at 2:30 A. M. and were ferried across the river. Took the Baltimore and Ohio road before daylight. In box cars — plenty of...

Good order has prevailed since the hanging. The men have settled right down to the business of dying, with no interruption. I keep thinking...

Received a few lines from George Hendryx, who again went out to work on the outside last night. Wirtz with a squad of guards is about the c...

Ten days since I wrote in my diary, and in those ten days was too much occupied in trying to dig a tunnel to escape out of, to write any. O...

Dr Lewis is very bad off with the scurvy and diarrhea. We don't think he can stand it much longer, but make out to him that he will sti...

We are digging with an old fire shovel at our tunnel. The shovel is a prize; we also use half of canteens, pieces of boards, &c. Its la...

Capt. Wirtz prowls around the stockade with a rebel escort of guards, looking for tunnels. Is very suspicious of amateur wells which some h...

Same old story — coming in and being carried out; all have a feeling of lassitude which prevents much exertion. Have been digging in a tunn...

We are squadded over to-day, and rations about to come in. It's a sickly dirty place. Seems as if the sun was not over a mile high, and...

Rain this morning. Late last night the train got under way. Kept running all night. Soon after daylight a number of us climbed to the top o...

I was on picket today, each man going out every other day, and the orders are very strict, no one being allowed to go through the lines unl...