Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-04-14

and the Bible was not forgotten. At
times pranks of various sorts were
played Oh each other One Of our
prisoners, Lieut.. Tormey, of the First
Maryland, was quite a conceited youth
and spent much Of his time in regal
ing us with episodes in regard to bis
many sweethearts in Baltimore Muir
ray and myself, by treasuung up Tor
ney S revelations, soon knew Tormeys
sweetheart about as well as Tormey
| did himself, and conceived the idea Of
personating her and inditing to Tor
mey a fervent epistle With the aid
Of Gemmil, who readily entered into
/ the scheme, we wrote the letter and
got Gemmil to copy, stamp and de-
/ liver to Tormey. How Tormey's spirits
revived on the reception Of 1t. He
was so full Of it he could not keep the
secret 50 made US MS conhasn's' lie
was kept busy several days composing
an answer, which he finally delivered
to GemmiI for inspection and mail.
Gemmil gave us copy and mailed the
original, but Whethef 'he young ""y
received 1t or not we never knew
She certainly dld not answer H. 0o'
we dld' keeping up orsH corfs-
spondence for some weeks ana DONG
Iormey as much good as II the letters
had been genuine lie dId not DIS
cover the cheat until ie" days be-
fore our departure, and' like So0a,
natured soul that ne was took IL all
very kindly, Not so with Lieut.. FUR
Wis, upon whom We played a similar
joke, and when he found us out re-
fused to speak to Murray, my father
or myself until the day Of our depart
ure, when he relented and forgare us.
In my last letter left of my faith
er's diary at March 10, and will now
resume the date OF our separation
March llth.-Ground covered with
snow No news
March l2th.-CoI. Perkins sent ioI
me today relative to the removal OF all
Pfi'"'es from our quarters l"'0 Tue
outer barracks. l 'i'e" 1"s Nl'So" o"
MN To-Day an" ne responded promptly
NI"'en 2,"'--I"o oil our o''''s'
ls'' us lor 1 Oh H'lIe"i! 10 ps eA
changed CaP'' cooper ana Lieut..
Milan Iney TOOK lea'e oI us at .
p H. Inc remaining oihceis nucN
detected at beng lett oen'"''
M'Fch Ifih'-AIose %oo". d. III,
MADE up my IRE anu oe'' ,0oN d goo"
'''n ana "IsSS7"' 0"I "0"Ss 'o'"'
somewhat "e'e' 'su ''., '"o' ''.u7'
Wrote to Misses Ile,SheL. ana O.e-
mei's' TWO l''les o' HII"'e'p MA WIN
had sent me theIf photographs. Vo'
bottle oil cod-A'er OH ana "n'9Ney
from surgeon
March l3th.-Ay 18th Sunday III
prison SHOWING last.
March l6.-Reoeiyed box from my |
friend, Miss Cheeseborough, contain
ing smt OF clothes Tor 'eoISe' par oI
Shoes travelling shiit TWO f".f SOCKS, F..
towels chest protector "ecN''+ ana
oaIi oisoaP, ana ior me ~ paper col
lars : SILK h2ndNefch'eis' par oil S"3-
Pen"s'S' TWO 'i"s" 'o"s's' d pan 5'0s
s'llnSS' teapot TEA s"8"" '.@'Ne'',
Du''aI "ii" Js"!' oS' wa ,.'''
daII'S Ie'"'"e" "eoI5e > ""'e'.u5
sAirt' necN'e ana cne'V protector. lie
also retained all the articles sent MUIR
ray Kyle blah'on' M'Ioefry' coop
er' Milan ana IurVIs' CaP'' Mar
perry received " very nice DoA oi eat
aoIes from MISS warner OIL tennessee
Receive" Ie''er rom ".'s TO-DAY
Mafch lr-OoI' l erNIus IeIm'y'e'
George 10 nave 'ne 'IaEel'n5 sn'r'
made lor nun by MISS Mari" 0nesss-
borough wrote nome
March lSth.-The boys sold Lieut..