[from the diary of Francis G. Hale of the 34th Ohio Zouaves]

I am still under arest it
is now fore oclock I get
plenty to eat for the cook
says they will give me the
best they got I am in one
of the rooms that the sick
are in they are all so they
can get up and down I
do not know long
they will keepe me here
the Docktor was in the
rooms a while a goe but
he did not say anything
to me nor I to him
they keepe a guard over me
he sets the gun in one
corner and goes out
to get things last night
they all went to sleepe
I could have got out but did not

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