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    3. Thursday June 29th Continued > Various reports are in circulation as to the disposal of these raiders that are being taken outside. One report is that they will be a Scaffold erected in the Stockade and the raiders sent back again into the Stockade and left to the Mercies of our now excited Men. But the most plausible report that I have heard is that a Jury of 12 impartial men be chosen and what ever Verdict they hand in the Confederate authorities will See Carried out>>> Thursday June 30th 1864** Increasing excitement in camp in reference to the "raiders". Two dead bodies found up to 10AM buried beneath the tents of some of the leaders. The self institued vigilence committe are busily engaged in hunting up more of the Murderous Villians. The Court Martial is now going on in the South entrance to the Camp.>> There is a report in Camp that thirteen thousand of the recently taken prisoners will be removed today to the New Stockade. The above is from "The Historical Magazine" Vol IX (Second Series) January 1871 #1. Article entitled ANDERSONVILLE DIARY OF A PRISONER ** NOTE SgtMajor Letteer used his 1863 Diary and rewrote over the pages when Captured in 1864, some days appear twice in a row. Dave Letteer

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