Still cold. Have enough to eat myself, but am one of a
thousand. The scurvy is appearing among some of the men, and is an awful
disease — caused by want of vegetable diet, acids, &c. Two small pox cases
taken to the hospital to-day A sutler has been established on the island and
sells at the following rates: poor brown sugar, $8 per pound; butter, $11;
cheese, $10; Sour milk $3 per quart and the only article I buy; eggs, $10 per dozen;
oysters, $6 per quart and the cheapest food in market.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p. 20
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