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Opening: 53 verso, 54 recto
Date(s) of entries: March 5 to 21, 1865 (53v); December 22, 1864 to March 20, 1865 (54r)
Author: Thomas Benton Alexander
Content: Clothing drawn (53v); Accounts and Diary (54r)


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53v, 54r      Images: 150 DPI100 DPI

Prison camp Elmira

T. B. Alexander

The amount of clothing I Drew one pair of pants
    one Shirt & pair socks
  one Jacket at the a bove named place at Richmond I Drew 1 pair shoes 1 cap 1 pr socks 1 Drawers on the 21st march 1865 also Drew 2.30 dollars was paid up to March 1865 all but Bounty & comutation

Miss accounts of E.C. T.B. Alexander & Amos Sept 8.64

Amos Bread 30 ct
Alexander E.C. molases 25 ct
Amos Bread 10 ct
all settled up to this time

Maj Bealle commanding the Confederate prisoners at Elmira New York Dec the 22nd 1864

March the 20 1865

We Started a letter to uncle Jesse W. Alexander Feb the 11 also one to Father in his care at Franklin Tennessee we Recd a letter from Father with $20.00 in it Feb the 16.1865 and ans it The same Day on 16th we wrote a letter to father March The 1st 1865

 
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