Entry by Samuel Elliot, December 7, 1864

    Source citation
    Samuel P. Bates, The History of Pennsyvlania Volunteers, 1861-65 (Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, 1869), 1: 733.
    Author (from)
    Elliot, Samuel
    Type
    Diary
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65 (1869), by Samuel P. Bates
    Adapted by Brenna McKelvey, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following transcript has been adapted from The History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65 (1869).
    Wednesday 7.- Cold, rainy, windy morning; called out before day-light with the glorious news to fall into line to be examined for parole.  Can it be possible that the day of deliverance has at last arrived?  While our hundred were marching inside the dead line I trembled with fear lest I should not be taken, but my fears were allayed when the suregon pressed upon my fear, but joy.  Eleven hundred and eighty of us were marched outside the stockade, where we signed the parole papers, and stood around small smoky fires until late in the afternoon.
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