Friday, September 30, 1864

cool to day no one
left all quiet

Thursday [September] 29 [1864]

cool and cloudy to
day all quiet to day
there was no one left to
day beans bacon beef and
Soup meal to day small
quantities of each

Wednesday [September] 28 [1864]

Another lovely morn
very warm feel well
to day another train
load left this eve

Tuesday, September 27, 1864

warm to day no news
all quiet beans meat Salt
and Molasses to day for
rations quite exciteing
times this evening
the rebs took out the
Mariens and 3 detachments

Monday [September] 26 [1864]

A fine day and quite
cool this morn had
roll call this morn

Sunday [September] 25 [1864]

very cold this morn
the coldest that we have
had since we have been
in the Bull Pen quite
warm this afternoon
drew beans beef and Bread

Saturday, September 24, 1864

cloudy and cool
Sun came out about
ten Oclock no news
to day dull time in
camp live on half
rations and very poor
at that cool to night

Friday [September] 23 [1864]

cool and cloudy
this morn sun
come out A little
while in the afternoon
drew beef Salt Meat
and beans

Thursday [September] 22 [1864]

cloudy the rebs has
been reorganizeing
the old detachments
and we are now filled
up and our number is
57 drew beef beans
bread to day little better
this evening

Wednesday, September 21, 1864

cloudy and quite
warm did not feel very
well to day did not
draw Molasses it run
out before it come
to ours

Tuesday [September] 20 [1864]

cloudy and warm
nothing new to day
the removal of Prisnors
is very Slow on
account of Transportation

Monday [September] 19 [1864]

cloudy and warm they
took 1300 Shermans
men out to night
drew meat and molasses
to night and soaked
beans got shaved to
day

Sunday, Septemer 18, 1864

cloudy and rainy
but very warm
no news to day
every thing is quiet
in regard to the
exchange

Saturday [Septembr] 17 [1864]

warm and cloudy
all quiet to day
700 Shermans men
left to night for Atlanta

Friday [September] 16 [1864]

Another lovely day
and every thing is
quiet to day no
Prisnors taken out
to day cannot get
transportation

Thursday, September 15, 1864

very warm Church
left to day they took
A load of the sick
that could walk

Possibly Corporal Joseph S. Church of Co. E, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, captured June 22, 1864, at Petersburg.

Wednesday [September] 14 [1864]

very warm quite
a serious axident
happened to day on
the railroad killed
7 yankees and one
Darky will delay
the transportations

Tuesday [September] 13 [1864]

Another lovely day
and very warm

Monday, September 12, 1864

A fine day and the
rebs are Still hurrying
up with the yanks
20 more detachments
left to night we get
very poor rations now
bread and molasses no
meat

Sunday [September]11 [1864

A fine day from
19-38 left to day
about all the boys
from the 20 left except
Avery Davis and myself

Corporal Charles E. Avery Co. B captured in Wilderness with Hitchborn May 5, 1864; survived imprisonment
Private Willilam L. Davis Co. E captured July 10, 1863; died in Andersonville and is buried in National Cemetery there

Saturday [September] 10 [1864]

another lovely day 8 3
detachments left at 2
Oclock this morn
quite cool this evening

Friday, September 9, 1864

cloudy and quite
cool to day do not
feel very well the
Chickamauga Prisnors
left to day part of
them came back for
want of transportation

Thursday [September] 8 [1864]

another lovely day and
they are still to work
takeing out the old
Bell island prisnors
the report is that
there is to be a general ex
change

Wednesday [September] 7 [1864]

another lovely day and
the camp is all excited
this morn 10 detach
left this morn four of
them came back the
cars did not arrive they
left again at eve

Tuesday, September 6, 1864

another lovely morn
got up pretty early
this morn feel pretty
well this morn 18 detach
ments ordered to be
ready to leave in the
morn quite warm

Monday [September] 5 [1864]

A fine day and very
warm more Prisners
from Shermans army
Atlanta reported to
be taken and 8,000
Prisnors with it

On September 1, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta, after a four-month siege by Union forces under Union General William T. Sherman. The following day the Mayor formally surrendered the city.

Sunday[September] 4 [1864]

cloudy and quite
cool to day another
Sabbath has come and
brought no change
although camp rumors is
as prevelent as ever
but we cannot feel any
dependence on them.

Saturday, September 3, 1864

cloudy and quite cool
C Richardson died last
night he belonged to
Co D 81st Maine was
wounded at the battle
of Spotsylvania May
the 11th feel pretty well to
day

Andersonville Prison records and the roster of the 31st Maine list a Corrector K. Richardson, of Company F, 31st Maine.

Friday [September 2] 1864

Another lovely day had
the absis on my neck
lanced to day by A
Hospital Steward from
the 8 Mich In

Thursday, September 1 [1864]

A fine day for the
first day of fall
do not feel very well
to day

Wednesday, August 31, 1864

quite cool to day
some better to day
no news yet about the
exchanging of Prisnors