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- May 12, 2010
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- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
"All's well" The hourly call of guards at night at many military prisons. The procedure was used primarily to inform their officers that they were awake at their posts. In the Confederacy's Pemberton Prison in Richmond, sentries called the hours by their post number, such as, "Post Number 1. Two o'clock. All's well."
From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 7.
From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 7.