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belonged to the library. I judged by his looks and his delicate hands that he had never done any work. He told me that he and all the others taken at the time were natives of North Carolina. He was dressed in a neat gray suit which I judged had been furnished to him since he was taken. Some had on their uniform they were taken in -- The pants were all I saw They run dark with a black stripe down the seam. Every company had their own uniform he told me. I known that when I was in Tenn. the companies furnished d[?] uniform expecting the Confederate government to pay for them -- I asked him if he thought he was fighting in a good cause He made no reply and I changed the Subject -- In the afternoon I went ashore and went into the Fortress It is a mile and a quarter in circumference and contains 78 acres. The wall is 60 ft thick and is surrounded by a deep ditch from 40 to 100 feet in width The wall is built in a zigzag from making a great many angles and leaving every part of the ditch exposed to a lengthwise fire from the port holes of they should ever be attempt to cross their in boats or [?]