War Diary and Letters of Stephen Minot Weld.

Friday, August 5. — Reached Charlotte early in the morning, where we drew one day’s rations. I got hold of a raw onion here, and had a good meal on that, a hard-tack, and some wormy bacon. It tasted good, for I was hungry. Started again for Columbia, one hundred miles distant. We passed through sorghum, cotton and corn-fields, — many of the latter, few of the two former. Reached Columbia at 7 P.M., and were immediately surrounded by friends of the South Carolina regiment that was blown up in the mine, anxious to learn about their friends and relatives. Were marched to the jail, and from what I could see of the town should think it a very pretty one. Passed Wade Hampton’s house. There were beautiful shade trees planted along the street we were marched through. Was quartered on the lower floor in a room with several others.