None have been taken away from the island for a number of
days. Have heard that a box came for me, and is over in Richmond. Hope the
rebel that eats the contents of that box will get choked to death. I wrote to
the Governor of Michigan, Austin Blair, who is in Washington, D. C, some weeks
ago. He has known me from boyhood. Always lived in the neighborhood at Jackson.
Mich. Asked him to notify my father and brothers of my whereabouts. To-day I
received a letter from him saying that he had done as requested, also that the
Sanitary Commission had sent me some eatables. This is undoubtedly the box
which I have heard from and is over in Richmond. Rebels are trying to get
recruits from among us for their one-horse Confederacy. Believe that one or two
have deserted our ranks and gone over. Bad luck to them.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
33
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