All taken outside to-day to be squadded over — an all day
job, and nothing to eat. The men being in hundreds and some dying off every
day, leave vacancies in the squads of as many as die out of them, and in order
to keep them filled up have to be squadded over every few days, thereby saving
rations. Richmond papers are much alarmed for fear of a break among the
prisoners confined within the city. It is said there are six hundred muskets
secreted among the Belle Islanders. The citizens are frightened almost to death,
double guards are placed over us, and very strict orders issued to them.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
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