News of exchange and no officers over from Libby to issue
clothing. Extra quantity of wood. Rebels all drunk and very domineering. Punish
for the smallest kind of excuse. Some men tunneled out of the pen but were
retaken and were made to crawl back through the same hole they went out of and
the lieutenant kept hitting them with a board as they went down and then ran
back and forward from one hole to the other and as they stuck up their heads
would hit them with a club, keeping them at it for nearly an hour. A large
crowd of both rebels and Yankees collected around to see the fun.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
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