Ordered, any prisoner shouting or making a noise will be shot.
It was noticed and discussed among the prisoners, that the shooting was most violent immediately after a Confederate success.
I noted some cases that came under my own observation, but by no means a complete list; in fact, the prisoners became so accustomed to the firing from the parapet, that unless it occurred near his side of the prison, a man would take little notice of it.
1864.
April 27--Prisoner shot by sentinel.
May 27--One man killed and one wounded in the leg.
June 9--Franks, Fourth Alabama Cavalry, killed last night at barrack No. 12.
He was shot by the sentinel on the parapet as he was about to step into the street.
His body fell into the barrack, and lay there till morning.
The men afraid to go near him during the night.
22--Bannister Cantrell, Co. G., 18th Georgia, and James W. Ricks, Co. F,, 50th Georgia, were shot by the sentinel on the parapet.
They were on detail working in the ditch, and h
ing to subdue us in six months. What fools!
I tasted green corn to-day, and, although very fond of it, I touched it lightly, because it seemed so much out of season.
The country around is beautiful, and the birds are singing as merrily as if we were about to enter upon a perennial Sabbath-day, instead of a desolating war. But the gunpowder will be used to destroy the destroyer, man, and why should not the birds sing?
The china-trees are beautiful, and abundant about the dwellings.
May 27
We leave Montgomery day after to-morrow.
The President goes to-day-but quietly — no one, not connected with the Government, to have information of the fact until his arrival in Richmond.
It is understood that the Minister of Justice (Attorney-General) accompanies him. There are a great number of spies and emissaries in the country-sufficient, if it were known when the train would pass, to throw it off the track.
This precaution is taken by the friends of the President.
The day is p
