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on their coats were each worth twenty dollars. Others concealed money in their pork of which we had just drawn four days rations just before we were taken. I have written this account of the way money was saved that the reader may not be surprised when I talk of money hereafter as no strange thing in prison.

Saturday June 25th They have unclear to us a small piece of bacon another piece of bread the same size of those issued last night and half pint of bean soup with plenty of beans in it. (I mean a fair proportion of the soup was beans). I have been reading in the Testament; I have done so every day since I was taken prisoner and if such is the will of God I shall continue so to do until I am free. I have a grammar with me and hope to find time to unclear that some, but as yet I have been making unclear for sleep last? in the late unclear. Our names and places of birth were taken today. It is rumored that we ae to be paroled. I would be glad to get away from this place.