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Title: History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Curtis, O. B. (Orson Blair), 1841?-1901
Subjects: United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865) United States. Army Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1861-1965) United States. Army Iron Brigade United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental historiese
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Winn & Hammond
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. 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 warm.Got 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 rations.Willaird, 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 ninety.
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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 morning.10th.—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.—Had a good cup of soup made from a bone. 20th.—In bedall day. Rain at night run in on our bed. 21st.—Cold

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  • bookpublisher:Detroit__Mich___Winn___Hammond
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
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