January 17 — There were some prisoners taken out of the pen to-day for exchange. In order to find legitimate material for barter the whole camp was paraded this forenoon, and the Yanks passed along the lines picking out the weakest and puniest men in camp as the best paying commodity on the market, for exchange, utterly disregarding when and where they were captured.
Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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