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Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 33
Replies: 5
Views: 1827

Re: Day 33

They have their overcoats and blankets.
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Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 33
Replies: 5
Views: 1827

Re: Day 33

They were captured at the Rapidan.
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Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 33
Replies: 5
Views: 1827

Re: Day 33

Two hundred more prisoners came in here this morning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
by admin
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,
by admin
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.
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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.
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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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 30
Replies: 4
Views: 1558

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.
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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.
by admin
Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:40 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 29
Replies: 7
Views: 1960

Re: Day 29

Pemberton we thought was bad, but nothing compared to Bell Isle.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
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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.
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Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 29
Replies: 7
Views: 1960

Day 29

29th. I was lucky in getting into one of the tents, so did Webb and Culberson.
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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.
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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
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Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:36 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 28
Replies: 4
Views: 1414

Re: Day 28

There are about five thousand prisoners here.
by admin
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.
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Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:35 am
Forum: Diário portuguese 2
Topic: Day 28
Replies: 4
Views: 1414

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.
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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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
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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.
by admin
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
by admin
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.
by admin
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
by admin
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.
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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.
by admin
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.