Excerpt from Civil War Diary of Henry B. Sparks, Company C, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, 1864: Owned in the 1960s by Arlington High School, Indianapolis Feb 12 A prisoner attempted to steal a blanket from one of the guards today, when the guard drew up and shot after him, hitting three other men, one through the body, one through the groin, and one through the let. The first one died; the others were thkau to the hospital. The man who stole the blanket was tied up and whipped soundly. Butler was accepted today. Great rejoicing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.