_1st day, 6th mo. 19th._ Was up early this morning and went to the spring and got some good water, and washed myself. Took a walk up and down the street,[5] and then lay down and took a good sleep. It was cloudy most of the time. The sun came out hot occasionally. Had a heavy shower in the evening. Five hundred more men were put in the stockade to-day. Three men were shot and wounded by one of the guards. A man was on the _dead line_; the guard shot at this one, and missing him, shot the others. _2d day, 6th mo. 20th._ Had the usual quantity of rain; was up early and got some spring water. _3d day, 6th mo. 21st._ Was very warm and cloudy. I made some coffee and fried some meat on my plate for breakfast--had some gravy also. We did not eat more than half the extra bread we drew last night, and had half a loaf left, which I traded for some wood. A few more prisoners were put in to-day. The place is so crowded that it is impossible to travel without difficulty. _4th day, 6th mo. 22d._ Was rather cloudy and warm. Drew mush and meat; the mush, like it always has been, was only half cooked; we did not get it until dark, and then went to work and baked it on my plate. To-day one hundred men had to fill up a tunnel which they had dug. It was eight to fifteen feet deep and commenced twenty yards inside, and run more than the same distance on the outside, and was ready for them to go out. Some of the crowd had informed on them. _5th day, 6th mo. 23d._ Flying clouds and very hot. There seems to be a good breeze going, but it cannot get to us here. Over seven hundred more prisoners were crowded in to-day. Drew corn bread and bacon, and would have drawn fresh beef, but some objected to it on account of not having wood. _6th day, 6th mo. 24th._ The weather was similar to yesterday, only hotter. Done nothing of any account. _7th day, 6th mo. 25th._ Very warm. Drew mush and meat at dark and fried the mush into cakes. _1st day, 6th mo. 26th._ The weather like yesterday. Drew the same kind of rations, and fried the mush, because it is never more than half done. _2d day, 6th mo. 27th._ The weather seems to be getting warmer. My diarrhoea gets no better--am so weak that I can hardly walk about. There has been enough prisoners put in the last few days to make nearly twenty-five thousand. (25,000). _3d day, 6th mo. 28th._ Had a fine shower this afternoon and night. I am very low and weak with the diarrhoea. _4th day, 6th mo. 29th._ Was very warm, had a thunder storm in the evening. Am weaker than ever and can hardly get along. Did not get any rations, because some of the men took the "raiders"[6] in hand, and after knocking down, and I guess killed some, arrested sixty and gave them over to the old captain. It is said he shot one. Last night they killed a man, and an Indian killed one of them. I took two bacon rinds, and after roasting them by the fire, ate them.