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CIVIL WAR DIARY OF PVT JUBAL
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This second in a series of documents from the Private Jubal archives, documents Jubal's
escape from the jail cell described in the previous letter.
April 16, 1862
My Dear General,
Please pardon my penmanship as I am no too familiar with English as it is written.
It is with mucho profoundest regret that I must relate an incident of prisoner escape.
While conducting the prisoners assigned to the European brigade to thier work detail , it has
always been the custom to place them in chains together.
However the detail this morning was an exception owning to the fact that the
prisoners were about to leave for duty at the Front Lines.
One particular prisoner began to sing the "Bonnie Blue Flag" and soon both prisoners and guards were engaged in patriotic song,
especially the song loving Italians of the Garibaldi Guards Company who were guarding said prisoners.
Even civilians and young ladies along the street were singing. All proceeded normally with Lieutenant Guiseppi Santini
proudly at the front of the column. Unfortunately, he was ( I have determined)
shoved in the path of a Creole maidservant who was pitching out her chamber pot onto the street.
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Lieut. Santini was immersed in ofal, right in the midst of his aria. He was said to have cried out desperately, "POOOYIEEEE!," and in the ensuing confusion several of the prisoners made an escape. All were rounded up except one private who calls himself "Jubal," whom I believe started the singing and by eyewitness accounts, shoved poor Lieutenant Santini into the path of the slop jar, causing him grevious accident. We have not been able to find and apprehend the felon "Jubal." PS: Lieut. Santini asks if the Department will pay for his soiled garments, as replacement is of paramount importance to the well being of his company. Several of his men are discouraged by the incident and say they cannot follow an officer in a soiled uniform, as it will cause the ladies to scorn them. The company may have to disband.
In a situation of greatest embarassment,
Major Gaudenzi Marzoni More from the Jubal archives in the next issue ... |
