_2d day, 7th mo. 25th._ Suffered last night very much with the cold. This night was the coldest yet. The diarrhoea has returned and is very bad. The day was warm with a good breeze. Drew rice, raw bacon and no salt. I sold a ration of pork and bought two spoonsful of salt. _3d day, 7th mo. 26th._ Was a pleasant day. Made corn meal gruel for breakfast and supper. Borrowed Clark's infantry tactics and read and slept all day. Drew meal, salt and bacon. _4th day, 7th mo. 27th._ Was rather pleasant all day. Spent the day as yesterday and drew the same kind of rations. There are a great many rumors about our going to be paroled about the fifth or sixth of next month. There were over two hundred prisoners, mostly one hundred days' men, from the Shenandoah valley, put in to-day. _5th day, 7th mo. 28th._ To-day is pretty warm. Eat nothing but gruel and boiled rice. About two hundred prisoners put in to-day from Sherman's army. Just as they were ready to enter, the rebels fired a shot across the camp. _6th day, 7th mo. 29th._ To-day some of the detachments drew molasses; I traded a ration of pork for molasses for supper. Had gruel for breakfast, and boiled rice with the molasses for supper. To-day was warm, with a heavy shower in the evening. _7th day, 7th mo. 30th._ Was warm. I sold two rations of my meat for twenty-five cents worth of soap, and after roll-call, washed my red shirt. Sold a piece of meat, which Griffith and I had a dispute about, for five cents, and got him a chunk of tobacco. _1st day, 7th mo. 31st._ Eat my breakfast and lay in the tent most all day. Am very weak from the diarrhoea which I cannot get rid of. J. Matthews is a prisoner here and has come to see me. _2d day, 8th mo. 1st._ Lay in the tent most of the time. Took a pill which "Gad" got for me to-night; he got one opium and two other pills. _3d day, 8th mo. 2d._ Took the rest of my medicine to-day, and think I am better. They commenced taking the sick out and away this morning--suppose they have gone to Macon. During fifteen minutes this evening, we had the heaviest shower I ever saw; Griffith was at the spring and got caught in it. Have been drawing rice, salt and bacon this week. _4th day, 8th mo. 3d._ They have been busy taking the sick away. Drew meal instead of rice to-day. Borrowed Roberts' Bible and read some. Took an opium pill last night which made me sleep until roll-call this morning. _5th day, 8th mo. 4th._ Was in the shade under the tent most of the day reading the Bible and getting to sleep. Helped to wash Dr. Buckley this evening; he has been very sick all day. Drew pork and rice. Had no roll-call for the first time since we have been in the new stockade. Some sick were sent out to-day--rumor says they are being sent into our lines. To-day was a warm one.