After hastily eating, we were hurried back to our work, each man dragging a heavy log chain after him to his work.
About a half hour before night they were commanded to stop work, take a bite to eat, and then be locked up in a small cell until the next morning after sunrise.

The prisoners were locked in, two together.

My bed was a cold stone floor with but little bedding! My visitors were bed-bugs and musquitoes..