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Source citation
Samuel P. Bates, The History of Pennsyvlania Volunteers, 1861-65 (Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, 1869), 1: 733.
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Diary
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Exact
Transcriber
Transcription adapted from The History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65 (1869), by Samuel P. Bates
Adapted by Brenna McKelvey, Dickinson College
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Transcription
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.