. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . Must write to my friends. 18th.—Corn bread for ration. 19th.—Lay abedall day to keep warm. Cold and Stormy. Got half a loaf of poor corn bread. Menare dying like sheep with the rot. Sunday, Nov. 20.—It still rains. Cold and muddy. In bed to keep half a loaf of sour corn bread. 21st.—Rained all night and all day. Mud kneedeep. 22d.—Awful cold day, one freezes to stir out long enough to draw , of Company A, Twenty-fourth Michigan, died last night. 23d.—Too col
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . Must write to my friends. 18th.—Corn bread for ration. 19th.—Lay abedall day to keep warm. Cold and Stormy. Got half a loaf of poor corn bread. Menare dying like sheep with the rot. Sunday, Nov. 20.—It still rains. Cold and muddy. In bed to keep half a loaf of sour corn bread. 21st.—Rained all night and all day. Mud kneedeep. 22d.—Awful cold day, one freezes to stir out long enough to draw , of Company A, Twenty-fourth Michigan, died last night. 23d.—Too coldto take off our clothes to skirmish for greybacks. 24th.—Thanksgiving Day at CONFEDERATE PRISONS. 435 home. We only get a quarter loaf of bread. Hardly enough to live on. Forty diedaily. 25th.—I write with a sad heart. Only got four ounces of bread to-day. Suffering•with cold. Nearly naked. Covered with lice. Oh, what a fate ! Must we die? Will notGod deliver us from this hell? 26th.—Yesterday the mob secured the guard and ralliedto get out. We lost in killed and wounded about PRISONERS RIOT FOR FOOD AT SALISBURY PRISON, NORTH CAROLINA. Sunday, Nov. 27.—Drew half a loaf. One hundred colored soldiers came into-day. 28th.—Got two ounces of meat. There is plenty of bread in the cook housebut C. S. A. would rather have us starve fifty a day. 30th. — Saw a man drop dead fromstarvation. Dec. 5th.—No hope of parole. Half a loaf and a potato for to-daysration. 8th.—Chapman, of Company K, Twenty-fourth Michigan died this —Seventy-five men have died since yesterday. Sunday, Dec. 11.—Men still dying over fifty a day. Hear that Sherman istwenty-five miles of Savannah. Hope something will turn up. 13th. — Slept none lastnight it was so cold. 15th.—On quarter rations. Hear we are to go to SouthCarolina. Hope we will get out of this accursed place. Shall I ever see home again?17th.—Bought an onion for a dollar.* Sunday, Dec. 18.
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