War Diaries (April 8) (nonfiction)
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Creed T. Davis: April 8, 1865
Diary of Creed T. Davis, Private Second Company Richmond Howitzers.
I am a prisoner of war. I write this in the prison camp near Burkeville Junction. On the 6th, being quite worn out and broken down, the battalion marched ahead of me. After straggling some time I found our wagon train and marched with it, hoping to catch up with the company at night. In the evening the Yankees, who had been marching parallel with and on both sides of us all day, closed in on us and captured the whole wagon train, numbering many hundred wagons and ambulances. The wildest confusion reigned among the drivers. As the Yankees were all around us, nothing could be done. Many of the horses were cut loose from the wagons, and as they galloped away riderless over the fields were shot down. Notwithstanding I was in the enemy's hands some time, I rallied my strength and escaped to the woods, where I slept, with many stragglers or lost men like myself, till the morning. On the morning of the 7th, while attempting to get across the Appomattox, we were gobbled up by the enemy, under the very nose of whose advanced line we had slept the last night. My captor, who was a Pennsylvania Dutchman, treated me with great magnanimity, giving me crackers and parched coffee. It is useless to say I was almost famished.
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- A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi