Jack Shannon, from Ann Arbor, died this morning. The raiders
are the stronger party now, and do as they please; and we are in nearly as much
danger now from our own men as from the rebels Capt. Moseby, of my own hundred,
figures conspicuously among the robberies, and is a terrible villain. During
the night some one stole my jacket. Have traded off all superfluous clothes,
and with the loss of jacket have only pants, shirt, shoes, (no stockings,) and
hat; yet I am well dressed in comparison with some others, many have nothing
but an old pair of pants which reach, perhaps, to the knees, and perhaps not.
Hendryx has two shirts, and should be mobbed. I do quite a business trading
rations, making soup for the sick ones, taking in payment their raw food which
they cannot eat get many a little snack by so doing
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
51
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