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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4.21 (search)
Ward Fourteen, General Hospital. November 24th Thanksgiving Day for the Lincolnites. Had a good dinner, better than any I have had since I left Winchester. We are anxious for a flag of truce boat to carry us to Dixie, and it is the perpetual theme of conversation. I bunk with Lieutenant Edmondson, of the Thirty-seventh Virginia, in order to keep warm. November 25th This is an intensely cold place. The Point is very bleak in winter, situated between Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river. The privates in the prison pen must suffer terribly, as they are thinly clothed, many in rags, and are poorly supplied with blankets and coal or wood. The fare is much better than at West's Buildings Hospital. November 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th Weather continues freezingly cold, and no truce boat yet. We are still hopeful, however. December 1st to 9th The officers have been separated from the privates, and put in ward D, a Swiss cottage. Lieutenant J. P. Arrington,