On the twenty-second of September, Glazier makes the following note on the progress of the siege:
"Shelling is kept up vigorously. From sixty to a hundred huge, smoking two-hundred-pounders convey Federal compliments daily to the doomed city."
It appears, however, that, for the most part, the destructive effects of this bombardment were confined to what was known as the "burnt district," and caused little damage to the inhabited portion of the city.
Seven days after the above entry in his journal his heart was gladdened by an order for removal, with his fellow-prisoner and messmate, Lieutenant Richardson, to Roper Hospital; a place much more tolerable as to its situation and appointments, though still within shell-range of the bombarding force. Prior to the transfer, a parole was obtained from each, by which they pledged themselves, while in their new quarters, to make no attempt to escape.
Here our prisoner found opportunity under the usual restrictions for writing the following letter home:
[Only one page allowed.]
C. S. Military Prison,
Charleston, South Carolina,
Roper Hospital, October 4th, 1864.
My Dear Mother: