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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
lock, we stopped on the Bull Run battle-field, and had the first meal I had eaten since Monday morning. It consisted of hot corn bread and excellent boiled bacon — nothing ever tasted better. We bivouacked on the battle-field, and at daylight started for Manassas. Arrived there at about 11 o'clock; our names were taken; we were placed in the guard-house till evening, when we took the cars for Richmond. We arrived here about 3 P. M. of Thursday, and were established in quarters in one of R. A. Mayo's tobacco warehouses. In about a week we were removed to another, on the right of the first, and yesterday were removed to the building occupied by the Bull Run prisoners all summer. It is an old building, but stands high, and is healthy. We get half a loaf of good fresh bread, and plenty of boiled beef for breakfast, and half a loaf of bread and a tin-cup full of soup for supper. In the other building we had breakfast at 11 o'clock A. M., and supper at 5 o'clock P. M.; here, break