Nearly twenty thousand men confined here now. New ones
coming every day. Rations very small and very poor. The meal that
the bread is made out of is ground, seemingly, cob and all, and it scourges the
men fearfully. Things getting continually worse. Hundreds of cases of dropsy.
Men puff out of human shape and are perfectly horrible to look at. Philo Lewis
died today. Could not have weighed at the time of his death more than ninety
pounds, and was originally a large man, weighing not less than one hundred and
seventy. Jack Walker, of the 9th Mich. Cavalry, has received the appointment to
assist in carrying out the dead, for which service he receives an extra ration
of corn bread.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
59
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