_5th day, 9th mo. 1st._ Was out to the Doctor's call--no medicine--no prescription. Lay in the house most of the day reading the Bible--have got through Jeremiah. The news in the Macon papers is favorable to a speedy exchange. Buckley gets no better. Traded half my bread and beef for beans; ate nothing but a ration and a half of beans for breakfast. Drew the same kind of rations except beans--rice only partly cooked. Last night was so cold that I could not sleep. _6th day, 9th mo. 2d._ Lay in the house--slept and read most all day. Drew the same rations as yesterday--got a piece of pork as large as my fist for a mess of thirty. _7th day, 9th mo. 3d._ Was cloudy and pleasant to-day. I am rather bad yet. No news about the exchange to be relied on. Griffith has a lame back; complains of the rheumatism. _1st day, 9th mo. 4th._ I am very ill indeed; lay quiet all day. _2d day, 9th mo. 5th._ Seemed to be the warmest day; suffered terribly from the heat; lay in the tent most all day; am very weak. Drew bread, pork, a large ration of molasses, and boiled rice. _3d day, 9th mo. 6th._ My disease is better. Lay in the tent most all day. Eighteen detachments were ordered to be ready to leave at any moment--commencing at the first, going up to the eighteenth. _4th day, 9th mo. 7th._ Lay in the tent most of the day and am better. They commenced at the first detachment at seven o'clock this morning and by night got as many as six, and gave orders up as high as eighteen to be ready to leave at a short notice. They ordered at first eighteen detachments to be ready, but could not find transportation for all to-day. They say they are ordered to Charleston to be exchanged. _5th day, 9th mo. 8th._ Lay in the house most of the day. Helped Dr. Buckley all I could. Drew beans, boiled beef, salt and corn meal. They send off prisoners as fast as they can get transportation; have not got more than twenty detachments away yet; they took some of the higher detachments after getting up to the eighteenth--seventy-six to eighty. Mathews got off. _6th day, 9th mo. 9th._ Was extremely warm to-day. Helped to carry Buckley up to the barracks; was busy waiting on him until near noon; he is very ill; at noon he was admitted to the hospital; I went outside the gate with him; the rebel sergeant would not allow me to stay out with him. The barracks were vacated and filled up with the sick of the detachments which have left. The Drs. commenced and admitted large numbers into the hospital. I have the diarrhoea very bad. About two thousand more were taken away; they ship them off as fast as they can. _7th day, 9th mo. 10th._ Had a severe spell of chills and fever last night; being so bad the day before, was the cause of it; drank plenty of water, which soon stopped the chills, and threw me into a fever. Was so weak to-day, could hardly go about. About the same number as yesterday were sent off; they mostly started in the night. Drew bread, boiled rice, molasses and salt.