A steady rain for twenty-four hours, and have not been dry
during the time, however it is a warm rain and get along very well. We are
still issuing clothing but very slow. About one hundred per day get partly
clothed up. No news of exchange. Abe Lincoln reported dead. Papers very bitter
on Beast Butler, as they call him. Manage by a good deal of skirmishing to get
the papers almost every day in which we read their rebel lies. A plan afoot for
escape, but am afraid to say anything of the particulars for fear of my diary
being taken away from me. As I came inside to-night with some bread in my
haversack some fellows who were on the watch pitched into me and gobbled my
saved up rations. I don't care for myself for I have been to supper, but the
boys in the tent will have to go without anything to eat for this night. It
don't matter much — they are all hungry and it did them as much good as it
would our mess.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
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