[from the diary of Francis G. Hale of the 34th Ohio Zouaves]
on guard to day but
I got in the post office
to write out Passes I
had a first rate time
There was one of
the prisners tried to
escape this morning
he started to run and
one of the guards
shot him in the back
but it did not kill
him he was one that
helpt to burie the
men that was killed
on beachfork he tried
very hard to get away
last night but did not
he said he thought it
was death if he stayed
so he tried to run of
MSS 13405
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