Last night, we were aroused about 12 o’clock by the long roll, and we rolled out of bed much to our dissatisfaction, pulled on our clothes in a hurry, ran out and fell in ranks with guns and accouterments, but it proved to be a false alarm, so far as we were concerned, since we did not leave camp. But the Yankees landed about eight miles below us and burned the North Carolina salt works retiring as soon as they had burned the works. Nothing new today. We catch some fish out of my beautiful river. Company A is sent to Charleston to guard some prisoners, captured by General Hoke1 at Plymouth. We have just received orders to prepare five days rations and proceed to Tarboro to conduct the aforesaid prisoners, 2,500 in number, to Charleston, South Carolina on their way to prison in Georgia. All getting ready, leave in half hour to take the cars at Wilmington to Goldsboro.
1 Robert Hoke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hoke
