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Night before last there were seven prisoners escaped, they were all hard cases, one of them had been arrested several times, but had each time succeeded in escapeing. At Seven Oclock in the evening as the guards were being relieved it was found that the pad lock had been broken open that secures one of the gates. Boreman of our Company had been on that post and was partialy drunk. He is now under arrest awaiting for a trial. My opinion is that he was asleep on his beat while the gate was broken open and that they did not succeed in getting out at the gate, but went over the wall on the oposite side of the yard. Had they gone out of the gate at that time of night they would have been seen by our boys, as it is on the street and some of us are loafing around there nearly all the time. Peter Baker has been sent to Ship Island for one year. Dont you think that Company G is gaining noteriety? He was charged with horse stealing by the lying, swindling, thief George Cockerell. While at Iberia Pete caught himself a wild Pony, but that is no more than half the Regt. done. He had been detailed by the Colonel as Regimental