Instead of prisoners going away five hundred more have come,
which makes it very crowded. Some are still confident we will go away soon, but
I place no reliance on rebel reports Rather warmer than usual, and the men
busying themselves hunting vermin. A priest in the camp distributing tracts.
Men told him to bring bread; they want no tracts. Exchange news has died away,
and more despondent than ever. I to-day got hold of a Richmond Enquirer which
spoke of bread riots in the city, women running around the streets and yelling,
“Peace or bread!”
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
17
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