English Diary 1
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1 day:
6:30 - I wake up, then I brush my teeth and wash my face, I put clothes on me.
7:00 - I have breakfast. I eat two slices of bread with cottage cheese, ham, a tomato and lettuce and a cup of coffee without sugar for breakfast.
7:30 - I wash a plate and a cup after breakfast, take my laptop, my bag and go to work.
at 8:00 - I arrive at work. During the working day I contact with different clients, do negotiations, prepare different papers...
11:00 - I eat my second breakfast, it's yogurt with muesli and one apple.
13:00 - I eat my sandwich with butter, hard cheese and a cucumber.
16:30 - I finish my work.
17:00 - I go to a store to buy a meal for tomorrow.
18:00 - I arrive at home and I start to prepare my dinner.
18:30 - I have my dinner, I prepare vegetable soup and pork chops with a boiled potato and salad with a cabbage, a carrot, an onion, a little of mayonnaise. I drink a cup of green tea.
19:00 - I wash all dishes after my dinner. Then I watch TV, read a book and have a rest.
22:00 - I take a shower and go to bed. Tomorrow is the next working day. -
2 day:
6:30 - I wake up. It’s very hard for me to wake up early in the morning. Then I brush my teeth, wash my face and put clothes on me. Today I wear jeans, a gray T-shirt and my favorite navy blue sweater.
7:00 – I have my breakfast. Today I prepare a yogurt with cornflakes, two slices of black bread with butter, ham and a sweet pepper and a cup of coffee without sugar.
7:30 - I wash a plate and a cup after breakfast, I pick up my laptop and my bag and go to work.
8:00 – I arrive at work.
11:00 - I eat a banana and oranges for second breakfast.
13:00 - I eat my sandwich with butter, harm and cheese.
16:30 – My working day is over.
17:00 - I go to a swimming pool to have a rest.
18:00 - I arrive at home and start to prepare my dinner.
18:30 - I have my dinner, it's mushroom soup and boiled poultry with boiled rice and salad with a carrot, an onion, a little of mayonnaise and a cup of green tea.
19:00 - I wash all dishes after dinner. Then I read a book and have a rest.
22:00 - I take a shower and go to bed. -
3 day:
6:20 - I wake up at 6:20 because I need much more time to prepare myself. I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth, wash my face and put clothes on me. I wear a black dress and a colorful jacket today.
6:50 – I prepare my breakfast, it's boiled porridge with milk. I cut one apple into little pieces, add a spoon of honey and few nuts. I have green tea without sugar.
7:20 - I wash a plate, a pan and a cup after breakfast. I pick up my laptop and my bag and drive to work by a car. I fill up my car with gasoline on my way.
8:00 – I arrive at work. I have many things to do and prepare for a meeting with my new potential client.
10:00 – I have meeting with a client from Latvia, we discuss possibilities of cooperation.
11:00 - I eat two slices of bread with butter, cheese and sausages for second breakfast.
13:00 – It’s lunch time. I have a potato puree with a fried fish and one cucumber for lunch.
16:00 – I finish my work and I drive home. I stop at a supermarket for shopping on my way home. Today I need to buy some bread, yogurts, cheese, ham, dumplings, banana, apples, vegetables, oranges and lemon.
17:30 - I arrive at home and start to prepare my dinner.
18:30 – I boil ready-made dumplings with meat which I have bought in the supermarket for dinner. I have them with a natural non sweet yogurt. I drink apple juice. I bake apples. I slice an apple and put soft cheese with cinnamon, plum jam, raisins and nuts on it. I bake apples during 20 minutes, temperature 200°C. I drink mint tea. It's delicious.
19:00 – I go to a sport lesson for one and a half hours. It makes me relaxed a lot.
21:00 – I come back home. I take a shower and go to bed at 22:30. -
4 day:
6:30 - I wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face, put clothes on me. Today I wear a gray sweater and black jeans.
7:00 – I prepare green tea without sugar and a sandwich with soft cheese, one egg and a tomato for breakfast.
7:30 - I wash dishes, take a bag and drive to work by a car.
8:00 – I arrive at work. We have a four-hour meeting to discuss our upcoming trip to Dubai for a dental exhibition.
12:00 - I eat salad with a tomato, olives, a sweet pepper, pasta and mozzarella cheese with an olive oil, a salt, a black pepper, two slices of bread with a salmon and I drink black tea with a lemon for lunch.
16:00 – My working day is over and I drive home.
17:00 - I arrive at home and start to prepare my dinner.
18:30 – I boil a potato, fry poultry and make salad with a carrot, an apple and puree with mayonnaise. I drink linden tea with honey and I eat two pieces of black chocolate.
20:30 – I take a shower and go to bed at around 22.00 -
PRISON DIARY OF MICHAEL DOUGHERTY
The book to which these lines form an introduction is a peculiar one in many respects. It is a story, but it is a true story, and written years ago with little idea that it would ever come into this form.
In the following pages is given an account of the daily life of the writer while confined in Pemberton, Barrett's, Libby, Andersonville and other Southern prisons. This was my second experience of Southern prison life. When captured the first time we were not treated as badly as the second time, and no detailed account was kept of each day's doings.
On February 26, 1863, my regiment, the 13th Pa. Cavalry was ordered out on a scouting expedition up the Shenandoah Valley and to rout out what was thought to be a band of Rebel raiders. We captured eight or ten of them and drove the remainder into the camp of the n-th Va, Rebel regiment at Woodsdock, some twenty miles from Winchester. On our return, at Fisher's Hill, we were met by a large force of the enemy, who were lined up on both flanks, and who opened fire on us.
We had a hand to hand fight for over half an hour, but their force and position were too much for us and we were forced to retreat. Our loss in killed, wounded and captured was 108. I had my horse shot under me at Strawsburg and along with fifty others were taken prisoners and conveyed to Richmond and put in Libby prison. We were confined there until May 26th, when we were exchanged and rejoined our regiment at Winchester.confine - to be imprisoned.
order out - to be delivered to some location.
regiment - unit of an army.
rout out - to force someone out of or away from some place or thing.
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I2th. About six this morning enemy appeared in our front and drove in our pickets ; skirmishing all day, assisted by Cavalry. At 5.00 PM we were overpowered, cut off from the division, and 127 of our regiment, among whom was your humble servant, were compelled to surrender. All the prisoners were dis-mounted, The enemy proved to be the advance of General Lee's army; remained prisoner at Jefferson all night.
13th. The rebels took us to Harrington and then back to Jefferson ; had nothing to eat these two days and men very hungry.picket - a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence.
dismounted - If you dismount from a bicycle or horse, you get down from it so that you are standing next to it. -
14th. Marched from Jefferson through Sulphur Springs to Culpepper, distance about twenty miles ; got some biscuit and raw bacon, which men ate with great relish. Took the cars for Gordonsville and remained there all night; the men are tired; the guards strict and will not allow us to purchase anything; prisoners are searched and everything taken from us ; some of the boys hide money in their shoes and stockings to prevent the rebels getting it.
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15th. Quite cool here and feel the loss of my overcoat and boots.
16th. Took the cars this morning for Richmond ; we arrived here at 3. 00 P. M. Men are tired and hungry ; marched from depot through the principal streets to the Pemberton building, opposite Libby, got one-fourth pound bread and one-fourth pound of beef; this is the second time we got anything to eat since we were captured.
17th. Rations this morning consisted of about one-half pound of bread and four ounces of beef to each man for the next 24 hours; men are thinking of home and friends and anxious to be paroled or exchanged. Talk of moving us to Libby, opposite here. They say it is a great deal worse than here, but I think it can hardly be any worse than this place.depot - station
anxious - wanting something very much
parole - the release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently -
18th. 400 of us were removed this morning to Libby, weak and hungry.The very name of LIBBY has became synonymous of terror. It carries tyranny and oppression in its simple sound. The soldier who is taken prisoner in Virginia vale is at once haunted with visions of this darksome den and shrinks from entering a place so full of bitter experiences as this is known to be. Fierce hate and revenge reign supreme here, and consequently there is a system of discipline which produces a condition such as we might expect when the discordant elements of beings rage unchecked, and we are not surprised to find the culmination reached in almost fiendish expression.
discordant - dissonant
haunt - to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost
shrink - move away, especially because of fear or disgust
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Thousands who have been in Libby will rehearse the story of their misery, want and woe to others; so that the echo will scarcely die out at the remotest period of the present generation. Households in coming time will gather about the fireside and talk of their friends and ancestors who ended their days in so much wretchedness because of their attachment to the Union. As their bravery, heroism and constancy are admired, so will it be with condemnation of malice and fury their persecutors.
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It may be, and probably is, one of the essentials of war. They should not naturally pre-suppose the absence of all humanity and the annihilation of every condition of comfortable existence as they have seemed to do in almost every part of the South where the Confederate authorities have opened these dens.
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The nights are very cold, and there being nothing but gratings in the windows, the men were obliged to walk the whole night long to keep from freezing, and if they can meet with the friendly embrace of slumber at all, it was during the day when the sun would shed its kindly beams upon us and so impart sufficient warmth to our bodies to keep us from shivering.
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I have seen men draw their bean soup in their shoes for want of a cup or plate of any kind to put it in, and what seemed worse than all the rest, was the almost satanic rule that if a prisoner was caught resting his eyes upon the glad scenes of nature through a window, he must be quickly translated from the earth by a ball of a musket. The whole thing is atrocious in the extreme, but we can expect little else.
to draw soup in - to put soup in (a plate)
musket balls are the basic type of bullet used as ammunition by guns
to translate - move from one place or condition to another
for want - if you do something for want, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible -
The Libby building is three stories high and eighty feet in width and one hundred and ten feet in length. In front the first story is on a level with the street, allowing a space for a tier of dungeons under the sidewalk, but in the rear the land sloped away till the basement floor rose above the ground. Upon passing inside we enter a room about forty feet wide and one hundred feet deep, with bare brick walls, a rough plank floor and narrow dingy windows. This room with five others of similar size and two basements floored with earth and filled with debris, composed the famous Libby prison, in which for months, thousands of the best and bravest men that ever went to battle have been confined and allowed to rot, starve, and be overrun with vermin, perish with cold, breathe stifling, tainted atmosphere, no space allowed us to rest by day, and lying down at night wormed and dove-tailed together like so many fish in a basket.
story - a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level (floor)
rear - the back part of something, especially a building or vehicle
dove-tailed - if two things dovetail or if one thing dovetails with another, the two things fit together neatly or have some common characteristics -
The name of Libby prison will appear to the mind and memory of all Union soldiers as that place where all manner of cruelties have been practiced, and will not be forgotten as long as one of them treads the earth. Oh! my country! the misery and hardships! I am suffering!
tread the earth - when you step or walk like me (suffer like imprisoned soldiers)
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Some of us had been secretly warned that we were going to be searched and that our money and ail our valuables would be taken from us. We hid our money in our shoe soles, buttons, and in any manner we thought would outwit the rebels. While we were thus engaged, a cruel looking rebel officer came in, followed by three rebel soldiers bearing a table and blank books, The officer called out: "Attention ! prisoners, form in line." Some guards were in front and rear of us and we were ordered not to move or talk.
engage - busy
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The officer then said; "I am Major Turner. Provost-marshall of the City of Richmond, C. S. A. I am under instructions for my government to have you surrender to me your money and valuables. Your name, company and regiment will be carefully entered in this book, and when you are exchanged or paroled, it will all be returned to you; for which I pledge the honor of the Confederate Government. I give you an opportunity to save your money, and when I am through taking that which you surrender, you will be searched by men who are experts and all they find will be confiscated."
be through - to have finished doing something or using something
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One of our men requested permission to ask a question ; it was granted. The comrade said : "Major Turner, as much as you are acting in the matter of the Confederate Government, will you, as its agent, give us receipts of that government for our money ?" No Sir, I am not here to fool my time away ; I am ready to receive your money and valuables." Considerable money was given up. The searching gang came in (and they understood their calling.) The money put in the brass buttons was lost.
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They tried the button with the jaw of a knife, and if the button did not mash, it was cut off, because there was something in it. They found considerable money, but some was so well secured that it was not found. It is needless to say that we never had returned to us any of the money we gave up.
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