. War diary and letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865 . ROOM IN JAIL WHERE NAVAL OFFICERS, CAPTUREDIN ATTACK ON FORT SUMPTER, WERE CONFINED IS. TOWN HALL, COLUMBIA, S. C. NEXT DOOR TO JAIL. MARKET UNDERNEATH;ON BALCONY AT NIGHT, WATCHMAN CALLED THE HOURS. STEPHEN M. WELD 359 on an island in the Appomattox, Rations were servedout late in the afternoon.^ Spent the night here. Petersburg, Va., July 31, 64. Dear Father, — Am well and uninjured. We startfor Andersonville, Ga., to-morrow. Monday, August i. — We started at 4 and marchedto the depot of the Petersburg & Danville where wewe
. War diary and letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865 . ROOM IN JAIL WHERE NAVAL OFFICERS, CAPTUREDIN ATTACK ON FORT SUMPTER, WERE CONFINED IS. TOWN HALL, COLUMBIA, S. C. NEXT DOOR TO JAIL. MARKET UNDERNEATH;ON BALCONY AT NIGHT, WATCHMAN CALLED THE HOURS. STEPHEN M. WELD 359 on an island in the Appomattox, Rations were servedout late in the afternoon.^ Spent the night here. Petersburg, Va., July 31, 64. Dear Father, — Am well and uninjured. We startfor Andersonville, Ga., to-morrow. Monday, August i. — We started at 4 and marchedto the depot of the Petersburg & Danville where wewere put on cars, and started off for Danville at All along the road we saw traces of Wilsons Burkesville Junction we were delayed until late inthe evening, on account of a train having been thrownoff the track. Tuesday, August 2. — Reached Danville at about6 , it being distant about one hundred and forty-eight miles from Petersburg. We were placed in tobaccowarehouses, which constitute here, as in every otherplace, the military prisons. We have very poor quartersand rations, being thrust into a lousy, dirty
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