Thursday, October 27. — Wrote to Alice. Had a rainstorm all day long. Some officers from the stockade came up to see us. One was Major Reynolds of Colonel Marshall’s regiment. Sent a note down to Major Forbes by them. Cheering in the evening from the crowd assembled to see the double-header. Five of the men jumped over the fence, were caught, and put in irons on bread and water for ten days. The guards were taken out of the yard to-day. Ten deserters went out of the yard to-day, supposed to have enlisted in the Irish Brigade now forming to do provost-duty in Richmond. The men mugged the corporal as he was taking their things out of the yard.
War Diary and Letters of Stephen Minot Weld.
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