Cold and pleasant. A good deal of fighting going on among us
– a discontented set of beings; just like so many hungry wolves penned up
together. Rebels still at work fortifying all around Richmond. A number of
Yankees have been taken out on parole of honor to work building breastworks
etc., but a very few will go and it is considered a great crime among us to
work for them. Have they forgotten our existence at the North? It seems as if
we were neglected by our government but will not judge them hastily until we
know more. There are perhaps sufficient reasons for our remaining here. Very
strongly guarded, nevertheless we talk of escape and are all the while building
air castles.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
31-2
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