Death notices from The Agitator, April 26, 1865:
DIED
At Salisbury, N.C., Nov. 20, 1864, JOHN LYON, of Co. A, 149th P.V., aged 22 years, 3 months and 7 days. Also at Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 15, 1865, AUGUSTUS LYON, aged 29 years, 9 months, and 17 days, both sons of Joseph E. Lyon, of Middlebury, Pa.
They were both captured on the Weldon R.R. (Virginia), Sunday, August 21, 1864, and after being kept at Belle Isle four weeks, they were taken to Salisbury, N.C., where they soon fell victims to rebel cruelty and starvation. I have before me, the journals kept by these young men and they contain the same old story of death and premeditated neglect on the part of Rebel officials.
AUGUSTUS entered the service August 1862, and had followed the gallant 149th through her score of battles and escaped from them unhurt. JOHN entered the service in 1863, and was in every fight of Grant's campaign of last summer, and both had always the reputation of being brave, gallant and efficient soldiers. They bore their prison sufferings like heroes. Never murmured at their lot, and although suffering all the pangs of starvation, and pressed with fine promises if they would desert "the old flag" and join the Rebels, as hundreds did, they spurned the offer and accepted death, to life at the price of dishonor. Poor boys! It was their lot to pass through all the hard fights of the Republic and yield up their lives when the light of peace began its dawning. But their friends do not mourn "as those without hope." They have the evidence that they did fall in the faith of the Chrisitan religion and can safely trust that their spirits have gone to that peaceful haven of rest where there will be no more wars forever, and where friends will never more be separated. FRANK.
The Wellsboro Agitator, January 27, 1885:
Twenty Years Ago
A Reminiscence of the Rebellion - Diary of a Union Soldier Who was Starved to Death at Salisbury
The following extract from the diary of Augustus Lyon, a member of Company A, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers kept during his imprisonment in rebel prisons, will give the reader a vivid idea of the horrors to which our brave boys were subjected at Belle Isle Salisbury and Andersonville. The keeper of this diary was a son of Mr. Joseph E. Lyon of Niles Valley. After much suffering he died in Salisbury, January 15, 1865 - twenty years ago the present month. He was taken prisoner on the Weldon railroad August 21, 1864 and was taken to Bell Isle, near Richmond where the sad history begins. His brother John was captured at the same time. The first entry after they reached Richmond is as follows.
August 24 - We slept on the ground no shelter
25 - This is an awful place. We get only half enough to eat. It is horrible.
26 - Rained hard last night. All drive out and counted
27 - More rain last night. We got a tent today.
28 - A lonesome day. Very hot and only half rations.
30 - Very cold last night. O, how long shall we have to stay here!
31 - We are hungry, only half enough to eat.
September 1 - We got our little corn bread and meat, and have nothing to do but cry bread!
3 - They gave us a new place to go to the water. We can hardly get enough to drink. It is awful.
4 - I keep the Sabbath by reading my Testament. Am as patient as possible, but so hungry.
5 - Nothing to do but to be hungry. We all cry for bread.
6 - A reb Lieutenant struck one of our men and bent his sword.
7 - The old cry for bread.
8 - We drew bread today.
10 - Drew wheat bread and a little pork, only half enough to eat.
12 - Starvation rules, only half enough to eat.
13 - Let tent down to keep warm.
14 - Heard heavy firing toward Petersburg.
15 - We got a gill of wormy beans and a small piece of bread.
16 - There is a great cry for something to eat.
19 - We are driven out and counted every day. Oh, hunger when will you depart.
20 - Got fresh beef. Bought two ears of corn and boiled them.
21 - Got fresh beef today.
22 - Nothing to do and not much to eat.
25 - Very cold, we are all hungry, but patient as we can be.
26 - Worked at rings some. Got nothing to eat until afternoon.
29 - Saw two men who dug out to escape but failed.
October 1 - Cold rain and a wet place to sleep.
2 - We get a piece of corn bread about two inches square, twice a day and a morsel of meat.
3 - More prisoners came in. I found a knife and worked at rings a little.
4 - Eleven hundred prisoners went south. We shall all be set off soon.
6 - Drew rations and started on the cars to Danville packed very close.
7 - Rode all night. Changed cars at Danville went to Greenboro, and camped out in a field. Drew a pint of flour for two.
8 - Baked our flour on the coals. Went on to Salisbury and were driven into that cursed pen. There we got half a loaf of bread. Nights cool and wood scarce.
10 - Stood by the fire all night to keep warm. We get half rations. A horrible place.
12 - Slept in old house. Got a little bread and no blankets.
13 - We get a small loaf of bread to two men. John and I draw together. We have rice soup once a day and a little meat once in a great while. Of some 800 men here seven die daily.
16 - Captain Davis was shot to day by a guard. Oh, how I want to get away!
[For several following days the entries relate to half rations and suffering from cold. On the 27th he notes the arrival of 600 Yankees. On the 28th and 29th they had no bread. His brother John was taken sick on the 29th and continued hard up to November 10th. There was no change in the rations - a pint of meal for two per day and sometimes a little rice soup]
November 12 - O Lord! Help us out of this horrible place.
15 - Nothing especially going on except misery and death.
17 - John is very sick.
18 - John is worse - out of his mind. He says he is going to die soon and leave me in prison.
19 - John is worse. Got him in the hospital on the straw.
20 - John died this morning about three o'clock. I could only go to the gate with him. Oh, this was an awful thing.
21 - Poor John is gone.
23 - I am with the 45th boys and glad to get with them. Have only one quarter loaf of bread. We shall starve here I guess.
25 - Half a ration. There was a break out. 12 killed 20 wounded.
27 - I am not very well. I can not describe the sufferings of this place.
29 - I feel very weak.
30 - Miller and I drew a beef's head with meat on it. Feel better.
December 2 - Feel bad but better.
5 - Starvation and horror and no prospect of getting away.
6 - Three hundred of our men came in. Some enlisted for the rebs.
12 - I have got well again.
17 - Albert Bryant died today.
18 - It is dreadful. Some thirty or forty die every day.
20 - Hunger still prevails. Horror is with us and death.
23 - Nothing going on but misery and death.
24 - Death and misery rule the camp at Salisbury.
29 - The men die very fast.
31 - Here I am prisoner of war at Salisbury, N.C.
[This is the last entry. Fifteen days later starvation had done its work and Augustus Lyon was numbered with the victims of a cruelty unparalleled out of Dahomey]
DIED
At Salisbury, N.C., Nov. 20, 1864, JOHN LYON, of Co. A, 149th P.V., aged 22 years, 3 months and 7 days. Also at Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 15, 1865, AUGUSTUS LYON, aged 29 years, 9 months, and 17 days, both sons of Joseph E. Lyon, of Middlebury, Pa.
They were both captured on the Weldon R.R. (Virginia), Sunday, August 21, 1864, and after being kept at Belle Isle four weeks, they were taken to Salisbury, N.C., where they soon fell victims to rebel cruelty and starvation. I have before me, the journals kept by these young men and they contain the same old story of death and premeditated neglect on the part of Rebel officials.
AUGUSTUS entered the service August 1862, and had followed the gallant 149th through her score of battles and escaped from them unhurt. JOHN entered the service in 1863, and was in every fight of Grant's campaign of last summer, and both had always the reputation of being brave, gallant and efficient soldiers. They bore their prison sufferings like heroes. Never murmured at their lot, and although suffering all the pangs of starvation, and pressed with fine promises if they would desert "the old flag" and join the Rebels, as hundreds did, they spurned the offer and accepted death, to life at the price of dishonor. Poor boys! It was their lot to pass through all the hard fights of the Republic and yield up their lives when the light of peace began its dawning. But their friends do not mourn "as those without hope." They have the evidence that they did fall in the faith of the Chrisitan religion and can safely trust that their spirits have gone to that peaceful haven of rest where there will be no more wars forever, and where friends will never more be separated. FRANK.
The Wellsboro Agitator, January 27, 1885:
Twenty Years Ago
A Reminiscence of the Rebellion - Diary of a Union Soldier Who was Starved to Death at Salisbury
The following extract from the diary of Augustus Lyon, a member of Company A, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers kept during his imprisonment in rebel prisons, will give the reader a vivid idea of the horrors to which our brave boys were subjected at Belle Isle Salisbury and Andersonville. The keeper of this diary was a son of Mr. Joseph E. Lyon of Niles Valley. After much suffering he died in Salisbury, January 15, 1865 - twenty years ago the present month. He was taken prisoner on the Weldon railroad August 21, 1864 and was taken to Bell Isle, near Richmond where the sad history begins. His brother John was captured at the same time. The first entry after they reached Richmond is as follows.
August 24 - We slept on the ground no shelter
25 - This is an awful place. We get only half enough to eat. It is horrible.
26 - Rained hard last night. All drive out and counted
27 - More rain last night. We got a tent today.
28 - A lonesome day. Very hot and only half rations.
30 - Very cold last night. O, how long shall we have to stay here!
31 - We are hungry, only half enough to eat.
September 1 - We got our little corn bread and meat, and have nothing to do but cry bread!
3 - They gave us a new place to go to the water. We can hardly get enough to drink. It is awful.
4 - I keep the Sabbath by reading my Testament. Am as patient as possible, but so hungry.
5 - Nothing to do but to be hungry. We all cry for bread.
6 - A reb Lieutenant struck one of our men and bent his sword.
7 - The old cry for bread.
8 - We drew bread today.
10 - Drew wheat bread and a little pork, only half enough to eat.
12 - Starvation rules, only half enough to eat.
13 - Let tent down to keep warm.
14 - Heard heavy firing toward Petersburg.
15 - We got a gill of wormy beans and a small piece of bread.
16 - There is a great cry for something to eat.
19 - We are driven out and counted every day. Oh, hunger when will you depart.
20 - Got fresh beef. Bought two ears of corn and boiled them.
21 - Got fresh beef today.
22 - Nothing to do and not much to eat.
25 - Very cold, we are all hungry, but patient as we can be.
26 - Worked at rings some. Got nothing to eat until afternoon.
29 - Saw two men who dug out to escape but failed.
October 1 - Cold rain and a wet place to sleep.
2 - We get a piece of corn bread about two inches square, twice a day and a morsel of meat.
3 - More prisoners came in. I found a knife and worked at rings a little.
4 - Eleven hundred prisoners went south. We shall all be set off soon.
6 - Drew rations and started on the cars to Danville packed very close.
7 - Rode all night. Changed cars at Danville went to Greenboro, and camped out in a field. Drew a pint of flour for two.
8 - Baked our flour on the coals. Went on to Salisbury and were driven into that cursed pen. There we got half a loaf of bread. Nights cool and wood scarce.
10 - Stood by the fire all night to keep warm. We get half rations. A horrible place.
12 - Slept in old house. Got a little bread and no blankets.
13 - We get a small loaf of bread to two men. John and I draw together. We have rice soup once a day and a little meat once in a great while. Of some 800 men here seven die daily.
16 - Captain Davis was shot to day by a guard. Oh, how I want to get away!
[For several following days the entries relate to half rations and suffering from cold. On the 27th he notes the arrival of 600 Yankees. On the 28th and 29th they had no bread. His brother John was taken sick on the 29th and continued hard up to November 10th. There was no change in the rations - a pint of meal for two per day and sometimes a little rice soup]
November 12 - O Lord! Help us out of this horrible place.
15 - Nothing especially going on except misery and death.
17 - John is very sick.
18 - John is worse - out of his mind. He says he is going to die soon and leave me in prison.
19 - John is worse. Got him in the hospital on the straw.
20 - John died this morning about three o'clock. I could only go to the gate with him. Oh, this was an awful thing.
21 - Poor John is gone.
23 - I am with the 45th boys and glad to get with them. Have only one quarter loaf of bread. We shall starve here I guess.
25 - Half a ration. There was a break out. 12 killed 20 wounded.
27 - I am not very well. I can not describe the sufferings of this place.
29 - I feel very weak.
30 - Miller and I drew a beef's head with meat on it. Feel better.
December 2 - Feel bad but better.
5 - Starvation and horror and no prospect of getting away.
6 - Three hundred of our men came in. Some enlisted for the rebs.
12 - I have got well again.
17 - Albert Bryant died today.
18 - It is dreadful. Some thirty or forty die every day.
20 - Hunger still prevails. Horror is with us and death.
23 - Nothing going on but misery and death.
24 - Death and misery rule the camp at Salisbury.
29 - The men die very fast.
31 - Here I am prisoner of war at Salisbury, N.C.
[This is the last entry. Fifteen days later starvation had done its work and Augustus Lyon was numbered with the victims of a cruelty unparalleled out of Dahomey]
Death notices from The Agitator, April 26, 1865:
DIED
At Salisbury, N.C., Nov. 20, 1864, JOHN LYON, of Co. A, 149th P.V., aged 22 years, 3 months and 7 days. Also at Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 15, 1865, AUGUSTUS LYON, aged 29 years, 9 months, and 17 days, both sons of Joseph E. Lyon, of Middlebury, Pa.
They were both captured on the Weldon R.R. (Virginia), Sunday, August 21, 1864, and after being kept at Belle Isle four weeks, they were taken to Salisbury, N.C., where they soon fell victims to rebel cruelty and starvation. I have before me, the journals kept by these young men and they contain the same old story of death and premeditated neglect on the part of Rebel officials.
AUGUSTUS entered the service August 1862, and had followed the gallant 149th through her score of battles and escaped from them unhurt. JOHN entered the service in 1863, and was in every fight of Grant's campaign of last summer, and both had always the reputation of being brave, gallant and efficient soldiers. They bore their prison sufferings like heroes. Never murmured at their lot, and although suffering all the pangs of starvation, and pressed with fine promises if they would desert "the old flag" and join the Rebels, as hundreds did, they spurned the offer and accepted death, to life at the price of dishonor. Poor boys! It was their lot to pass through all the hard fights of the Republic and yield up their lives when the light of peace began its dawning. But their friends do not mourn "as those without hope." They have the evidence that they did fall in the faith of the Chrisitan religion and can safely trust that their spirits have gone to that peaceful haven of rest where there will be no more wars forever, and where friends will never more be separated. FRANK.
The Wellsboro Agitator, January 27, 1885:
Twenty Years Ago
A Reminiscence of the Rebellion - Diary of a Union Soldier Who was Starved to Death at Salisbury
The following extract from the diary of Augustus Lyon, a member of Company A, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers kept during his imprisonment in rebel prisons, will give the reader a vivid idea of the horrors to which our brave boys were subjected at Belle Isle Salisbury and Andersonville. The keeper of this diary was a son of Mr. Joseph E. Lyon of Niles Valley. After much suffering he died in Salisbury, January 15, 1865 - twenty years ago the present month. He was taken prisoner on the Weldon railroad August 21, 1864 and was taken to Bell Isle, near Richmond where the sad history begins. His brother John was captured at the same time. The first entry after they reached Richmond is as follows.
August 24 - We slept on the ground no shelter
25 - This is an awful place. We get only half enough to eat. It is horrible.
26 - Rained hard last night. All drive out and counted
27 - More rain last night. We got a tent today.
28 - A lonesome day. Very hot and only half rations.
30 - Very cold last night. O, how long shall we have to stay here!
31 - We are hungry, only half enough to eat.
September 1 - We got our little corn bread and meat, and have nothing to do but cry bread!
3 - They gave us a new place to go to the water. We can hardly get enough to drink. It is awful.
4 - I keep the Sabbath by reading my Testament. Am as patient as possible, but so hungry.
5 - Nothing to do but to be hungry. We all cry for bread.
6 - A reb Lieutenant struck one of our men and bent his sword.
7 - The old cry for bread.
8 - We drew bread today.
10 - Drew wheat bread and a little pork, only half enough to eat.
12 - Starvation rules, only half enough to eat.
13 - Let tent down to keep warm.
14 - Heard heavy firing toward Petersburg.
15 - We got a gill of wormy beans and a small piece of bread.
16 - There is a great cry for something to eat.
19 - We are driven out and counted every day. Oh, hunger when will you depart.
20 - Got fresh beef. Bought two ears of corn and boiled them.
21 - Got fresh beef today.
22 - Nothing to do and not much to eat.
25 - Very cold, we are all hungry, but patient as we can be.
26 - Worked at rings some. Got nothing to eat until afternoon.
29 - Saw two men who dug out to escape but failed.
October 1 - Cold rain and a wet place to sleep.
2 - We get a piece of corn bread about two inches square, twice a day and a morsel of meat.
3 - More prisoners came in. I found a knife and worked at rings a little.
4 - Eleven hundred prisoners went south. We shall all be set off soon.
6 - Drew rations and started on the cars to Danville packed very close.
7 - Rode all night. Changed cars at Danville went to Greenboro, and camped out in a field. Drew a pint of flour for two.
8 - Baked our flour on the coals. Went on to Salisbury and were driven into that cursed pen. There we got half a loaf of bread. Nights cool and wood scarce.
10 - Stood by the fire all night to keep warm. We get half rations. A horrible place.
12 - Slept in old house. Got a little bread and no blankets.
13 - We get a small loaf of bread to two men. John and I draw together. We have rice soup once a day and a little meat once in a great while. Of some 800 men here seven die daily.
16 - Captain Davis was shot to day by a guard. Oh, how I want to get away!
[For several following days the entries relate to half rations and suffering from cold. On the 27th he notes the arrival of 600 Yankees. On the 28th and 29th they had no bread. His brother John was taken sick on the 29th and continued hard up to November 10th. There was no change in the rations - a pint of meal for two per day and sometimes a little rice soup]
November 12 - O Lord! Help us out of this horrible place.
15 - Nothing especially going on except misery and death.
17 - John is very sick.
18 - John is worse - out of his mind. He says he is going to die soon and leave me in prison.
19 - John is worse. Got him in the hospital on the straw.
20 - John died this morning about three o'clock. I could only go to the gate with him. Oh, this was an awful thing.
21 - Poor John is gone.
23 - I am with the 45th boys and glad to get with them. Have only one quarter loaf of bread. We shall starve here I guess.
25 - Half a ration. There was a break out. 12 killed 20 wounded.
27 - I am not very well. I can not describe the sufferings of this place.
29 - I feel very weak.
30 - Miller and I drew a beef's head with meat on it. Feel better.
December 2 - Feel bad but better.
5 - Starvation and horror and no prospect of getting away.
6 - Three hundred of our men came in. Some enlisted for the rebs.
12 - I have got well again.
17 - Albert Bryant died today.
18 - It is dreadful. Some thirty or forty die every day.
20 - Hunger still prevails. Horror is with us and death.
23 - Nothing going on but misery and death.
24 - Death and misery rule the camp at Salisbury.
29 - The men die very fast.
31 - Here I am prisoner of war at Salisbury, N.C.
[This is the last entry. Fifteen days later starvation had done its work and Augustus Lyon was numbered with the victims of a cruelty unparalleled out of Dahomey]
DIED
At Salisbury, N.C., Nov. 20, 1864, JOHN LYON, of Co. A, 149th P.V., aged 22 years, 3 months and 7 days. Also at Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 15, 1865, AUGUSTUS LYON, aged 29 years, 9 months, and 17 days, both sons of Joseph E. Lyon, of Middlebury, Pa.
They were both captured on the Weldon R.R. (Virginia), Sunday, August 21, 1864, and after being kept at Belle Isle four weeks, they were taken to Salisbury, N.C., where they soon fell victims to rebel cruelty and starvation. I have before me, the journals kept by these young men and they contain the same old story of death and premeditated neglect on the part of Rebel officials.
AUGUSTUS entered the service August 1862, and had followed the gallant 149th through her score of battles and escaped from them unhurt. JOHN entered the service in 1863, and was in every fight of Grant's campaign of last summer, and both had always the reputation of being brave, gallant and efficient soldiers. They bore their prison sufferings like heroes. Never murmured at their lot, and although suffering all the pangs of starvation, and pressed with fine promises if they would desert "the old flag" and join the Rebels, as hundreds did, they spurned the offer and accepted death, to life at the price of dishonor. Poor boys! It was their lot to pass through all the hard fights of the Republic and yield up their lives when the light of peace began its dawning. But their friends do not mourn "as those without hope." They have the evidence that they did fall in the faith of the Chrisitan religion and can safely trust that their spirits have gone to that peaceful haven of rest where there will be no more wars forever, and where friends will never more be separated. FRANK.
The Wellsboro Agitator, January 27, 1885:
Twenty Years Ago
A Reminiscence of the Rebellion - Diary of a Union Soldier Who was Starved to Death at Salisbury
The following extract from the diary of Augustus Lyon, a member of Company A, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers kept during his imprisonment in rebel prisons, will give the reader a vivid idea of the horrors to which our brave boys were subjected at Belle Isle Salisbury and Andersonville. The keeper of this diary was a son of Mr. Joseph E. Lyon of Niles Valley. After much suffering he died in Salisbury, January 15, 1865 - twenty years ago the present month. He was taken prisoner on the Weldon railroad August 21, 1864 and was taken to Bell Isle, near Richmond where the sad history begins. His brother John was captured at the same time. The first entry after they reached Richmond is as follows.
August 24 - We slept on the ground no shelter
25 - This is an awful place. We get only half enough to eat. It is horrible.
26 - Rained hard last night. All drive out and counted
27 - More rain last night. We got a tent today.
28 - A lonesome day. Very hot and only half rations.
30 - Very cold last night. O, how long shall we have to stay here!
31 - We are hungry, only half enough to eat.
September 1 - We got our little corn bread and meat, and have nothing to do but cry bread!
3 - They gave us a new place to go to the water. We can hardly get enough to drink. It is awful.
4 - I keep the Sabbath by reading my Testament. Am as patient as possible, but so hungry.
5 - Nothing to do but to be hungry. We all cry for bread.
6 - A reb Lieutenant struck one of our men and bent his sword.
7 - The old cry for bread.
8 - We drew bread today.
10 - Drew wheat bread and a little pork, only half enough to eat.
12 - Starvation rules, only half enough to eat.
13 - Let tent down to keep warm.
14 - Heard heavy firing toward Petersburg.
15 - We got a gill of wormy beans and a small piece of bread.
16 - There is a great cry for something to eat.
19 - We are driven out and counted every day. Oh, hunger when will you depart.
20 - Got fresh beef. Bought two ears of corn and boiled them.
21 - Got fresh beef today.
22 - Nothing to do and not much to eat.
25 - Very cold, we are all hungry, but patient as we can be.
26 - Worked at rings some. Got nothing to eat until afternoon.
29 - Saw two men who dug out to escape but failed.
October 1 - Cold rain and a wet place to sleep.
2 - We get a piece of corn bread about two inches square, twice a day and a morsel of meat.
3 - More prisoners came in. I found a knife and worked at rings a little.
4 - Eleven hundred prisoners went south. We shall all be set off soon.
6 - Drew rations and started on the cars to Danville packed very close.
7 - Rode all night. Changed cars at Danville went to Greenboro, and camped out in a field. Drew a pint of flour for two.
8 - Baked our flour on the coals. Went on to Salisbury and were driven into that cursed pen. There we got half a loaf of bread. Nights cool and wood scarce.
10 - Stood by the fire all night to keep warm. We get half rations. A horrible place.
12 - Slept in old house. Got a little bread and no blankets.
13 - We get a small loaf of bread to two men. John and I draw together. We have rice soup once a day and a little meat once in a great while. Of some 800 men here seven die daily.
16 - Captain Davis was shot to day by a guard. Oh, how I want to get away!
[For several following days the entries relate to half rations and suffering from cold. On the 27th he notes the arrival of 600 Yankees. On the 28th and 29th they had no bread. His brother John was taken sick on the 29th and continued hard up to November 10th. There was no change in the rations - a pint of meal for two per day and sometimes a little rice soup]
November 12 - O Lord! Help us out of this horrible place.
15 - Nothing especially going on except misery and death.
17 - John is very sick.
18 - John is worse - out of his mind. He says he is going to die soon and leave me in prison.
19 - John is worse. Got him in the hospital on the straw.
20 - John died this morning about three o'clock. I could only go to the gate with him. Oh, this was an awful thing.
21 - Poor John is gone.
23 - I am with the 45th boys and glad to get with them. Have only one quarter loaf of bread. We shall starve here I guess.
25 - Half a ration. There was a break out. 12 killed 20 wounded.
27 - I am not very well. I can not describe the sufferings of this place.
29 - I feel very weak.
30 - Miller and I drew a beef's head with meat on it. Feel better.
December 2 - Feel bad but better.
5 - Starvation and horror and no prospect of getting away.
6 - Three hundred of our men came in. Some enlisted for the rebs.
12 - I have got well again.
17 - Albert Bryant died today.
18 - It is dreadful. Some thirty or forty die every day.
20 - Hunger still prevails. Horror is with us and death.
23 - Nothing going on but misery and death.
24 - Death and misery rule the camp at Salisbury.
29 - The men die very fast.
31 - Here I am prisoner of war at Salisbury, N.C.
[This is the last entry. Fifteen days later starvation had done its work and Augustus Lyon was numbered with the victims of a cruelty unparalleled out of Dahomey]
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