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6th. No change in the program today.

Have nothing of interest to put down in my diary but hardships and misery, and plenty of that.

No one can form an idea of what suffering there is here, and no pen can describe the hardships we have to endure, all through bad management in some department, either Union or rebel.

There is talk of sending a petition to Washington to see if we cannot be gotten out of here.

Our government should not allow its citizens and soldiers to remain in rebel prisons to rot and die.

The rebels blame our government.