1861 December 10

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

I feele a goodele better
to day but not able to
do duty but hope to
be so in a few days
there was a secesh came
in to camp to day to
see one of the prisners
he was informed on
to the colonell by one
of the citizens so when
he went to the colonell
to get a pass to get in
the jail to see his man
but when he got in
the jail he could not
get out and was cept
a prisner for to go
to Columbiss for to
stay there a while I
gess

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