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tent blew over for it is too rotten to stand. Our rations the same as yesterday except soup and of that we received a double quantity." If I had made the same discovery on the 27th that I did on the 28th I think I should have escaped on the night of that rain. We were surrounded by a ditch and from the camp there was a passage down to the river, here across the ditch was a bridge, near to it stood a rebel guard. Now on this dark rainy night I could take a stick for a gun. crawl under the bridge and wait until the guard was relieved, crawl slyly out behind the relief guard as they were halted to relieve the sentinel. Take my stand as one of the guard, march off wit the relief fall out just before we should reach the guard house, swim the James and try for our lives. This I plotted and now resolved to wait for another rainy night. But before that came we moved as will be seen if you will read another day. Wednesday June 29th We drew the usual rations of head and meat, but no soup. We then moved off got aboard the cars? and started for Lynchburg. The cars? were miserably crowded and no water. We arrived in Lynchburg about midnight having been about 18 hours on the way.