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- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
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Re: Day 33
They have their overcoats and blankets.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
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Re: Day 33
They were captured at the Rapidan.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
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Re: Day 33
Two hundred more prisoners came in here this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1827
Re: Day 33
Hardly any of the prisoners have anything to get their soup in, and it would make your heart bleed to see how poor fellows trying to get their soup in their caps and anything that will hold it.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1827
Day 33
2d. Rations three-fourths of a pound of corn dodger and a pint of bean soup for the next twenty-four hours.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:49 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 32
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1308
Re: Day 32
Rations very small and the good things that I got from home are almost gone.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:48 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 32
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1308
Re: Day 32
About one-half of the prisoners that were captured at the time I was, are sick.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:48 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 32
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1308
Day 32
January 1, 1864. Ten or twelve died last night, one out of my regiment.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
Later in the history of this war, the people will become acquainted with the treatment of Union soldiers in the various Southern prisons.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
They bear their misfortunes bravely and patriotically, blaming only the conduct of our merciless enemies.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
it is the inhuman and inexcusable treatment they receive as prisoners.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
We know that the misfortunes and chances of war are privations, exposures and suffering, which is the inevitable lot of those who engage in the service, but we seldom hear our willing soldiers complain of these;
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
There are some of these things which have to be taken as the natural consequences of war, but some of them are not.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
but who will say they are more dreadful than the slow burnings which eat out the vitals, leaving the tenement of clay a mere wreck before the spirit quits its frail abode, more to be feared than the lightening which prevents the play of life, more sure than the anaconda's grasp or the tiger's embrace.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
Those terrible pages telling us how the flames rose from a bundle of sticks, and curled above the martyrs as they were tied to the stake, have a power to stir our souls within us to their utmost depth,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
The tortures of the inquisition were horrible and we shrink with horror as we peruse the history of that period.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
It were scarcely possible to conceive of more persistent wholesale misery, deliberately heaped upon men, than agents of Southern malice have poured upon their Northern kindred.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
but also deprived of every personal comfort and convenience and compelled to lie down exposed to the frowning elements of nature, and the still more pitiless abuse of mankind.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
These poor defenseless soldiers not only to be deprived of their arms which were so much their pride to bear and their glory to wield,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
It is a sad thing to have established on the pages of history.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
It is not strange that life under these circumstances should become weary.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Re: Day 31
It is dreadfully cold on the Island this morning,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2773
Day 31
31st. Four hundred more crossed from Barrett's prison for here this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:42 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1558
Re: Day 30
Resorted to box and got a cup of tea, some cake and ham.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1558
Re: Day 30
They say Uncle Sam's rations are all gone.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1558
Re: Day 30
A number of Pemberton men died last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1558
Re: Day 30
Prisoners dying very fast here.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
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Day 30
30th. Rations for the next twenty four hours about three fourths pound of corn dodger and two spoonfuls of molasses to each man.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:40 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1960
Re: Day 29
Very cold last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:40 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
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Re: Day 29
Pemberton we thought was bad, but nothing compared to Bell Isle.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1960
Re: Day 29
This is a horrible place.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1960
Re: Day 29
Those poor fellows, how they enjoyed it.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1960
Re: Day 29
Webb and I went to work and made a large can of coffee for all hands.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1960
Re: Day 29
There are ten of us in this tent, if I may call it that, and I promised to pony up with them.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1960
Re: Day 29
The reason we got in this tent was on account of what we had in our haversack out of the boxes.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
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Day 29
29th. I was lucky in getting into one of the tents, so did Webb and Culberson.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:37 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1414
Re: Day 28
and the other half are lying on the ground between the tents to keep the cold wind from them as much as possible.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:36 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1414
Re: Day 28
The part occupied by us is a low, sandy, barren waste, without the shadow of a single tree, and exposed to the chilly damp winds, with only a few tents with which about half of our number are protected from the severe cold
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:36 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
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Re: Day 28
There are about five thousand prisoners here.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1414
Re: Day 28
The space to be occupied by the prisoners is about six acres, enclosed by an earthwork three or four feet high, and with a ditch about five feet deep and six wide, to prevent any of the prisoners coming near to the grounds.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
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Day 28
28th. About five hundred of us marched from Pemberton prison across the bridge to the other side of the James river, opposite Richmond, and then crossed a small bridge which brought us to Bell Isle.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
Some of the boys did shed tears notwithstanding their hardened hearts.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
This is part of the horrors of war.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
They tried hard not to be parted, but they were not allowed to stay together.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
Two brothers from a New York regiment, one of them almost dead and the other was taking care of him and now they must part.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
What agony when comrades must part in this way, knowing full well that we will never see each other again.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
I really believe that one half of them cannot get up.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
I did not think so many of our number were disabled.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
One of the boys spoke up and said we would leave them with him for a New Year's present.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
All hands move as soon as they get their rations, so the quartermaster said, "and get over to Bell Isle; Tote all your dirty rags with you, as we won't have them here."
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Re: Day 27
There are a great many of the prisoners here who cannot walk, and of course must be left behind.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:32 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3891
Day 27
27th. Orders given for us to be ready to go to Bell Isle at two o'clock this afternoon, and pass the balance of the winter there.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:31 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 26
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1511
Re: Day 26
To take us out of this building and put us on Bell Island would wind up our career, as two-thirds of us have barely enough clothing to cover our nakedness, not speaking of keeping us from freezing.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:31 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 26
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1511
Day 26
26th. Great talk of sending us to Bell Isle, but I hope they won't, for it has a dreadful name and there is no shelter there.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
The Richmond papers state that the stench from the prison is endangering the health and the lives of all in the City, and it would be well to remove these "Lincoln hirelings" to where scant fare and cold weather would reduce them in number; consequently we will be removed to Bell Isle.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
Rations two biscuits, half a loaf of corn dodger and two spoonfuls of molasses, for our Christmas present, but I will attend to my box today.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
There was a hole under his arm large enough to put your fist in.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
It was a relief to a great deal of suffering.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
One of my regiment died last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
The most barbarous country would hardly treat a prisoner thus.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Re: Day 25
Thinking of our friends at home, enjoying themselves, and the condition we are in.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3175
Day 25
Christmas Day, 1863, and still in the Confederacy.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:28 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 24
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1708
Re: Day 24
There is a great deal of stealing among the prisoners, and starvation is the cause of it all.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:28 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 24
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1708
Re: Day 24
Culberson and myself go on watch tonight.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 24
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1708
Day 24
24th. Webb and Gallagher, two of my company, watched my box last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2580
Re: Day 23
Three of us who received boxes got one of the guards to bring us in an armful of wood for us to cook our tea and coffee, and we paid him three dollars in Confederate money, which is equal to thirty cents in our money.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2580
Re: Day 23
I sent two and they must have received them, or I would not have received the box.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2580
Re: Day 23
It is very strange I do not get a letter from home.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2580
Re: Day 23
I must be a little careful with what I eat.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2580
Re: Day 23
Probably been eating too much.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2580
Day 23
23d. I don't feel very well this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2155
Re: Day 22
I think it is the best thing I ever ate.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2155
Re: Day 22
How I do enjoy to go to my box and take a piece of boiled ham.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2155
Re: Day 22
I forgot to say I received a ham and two dried beef tongues.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2155
Day 22
22d. Prison rations I care very little for at present.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:24 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3527
Re: Day 21
If I don't do that, it will be all stolen from me in one night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:24 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3527
Re: Day 21
And of course I have to pony up with them.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3527
Re: Day 21
Three or four of us belonging to the one company are going to keep watch over it by turns.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3527
Re: Day 21
I wish I had enough to give them all some.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3527
Re: Day 21
Gave some to three or four of the sick boys who are close to me.