The other rolls were made out in the same way, and I do not suppose that they showed five hundred native Americans in the Stockade.
The next day after sending out the rolls, there came an order that all those whose names appeared thereon should fall in.

We did so, promptly, and as nearly every man in camp was included, we fell in as for other purposes, by hundreds and thousands.

We were then marched outside, and massed around a stump on which stood a Rebel officer, evidently waiting to make us a speech.

We awaited his remarks with the greatest impatience, but He did not begin until the last division had marched out and came to a parade rest close to the stump.
It was the same old story: "Prisoners, you can no longer have any doubt that your Government has cruelly abandoned you; it makes no efforts to release you, and refuses all our offers of exchange.

We are anxious to get our men back, and have made every effort to do so, but it refuses to meet us on any reasonable grounds.