Rebels in hot water all night and considerably agitated.
Imagined we could hear firing during the night. This morning small squads of
tired out union soldiers marched by our prison under guard, evidently captured
through the night. Look as if they was completely played out. Go straggling by
sometimes not more than half a dozen at a time. Would give something to hear
the news. We are all excitement here. Negroes also go by in squads sometimes of
hundreds in charge of overseers, and singing their quaint negro melodies. It is
supposed by us that the negroes work on the fortifications, and are moved from
one part of the city to another, for that purpose. Our troops have evidently
been repulsed with considerable loss. We hear that Dahlgreen has been shot and
killed. At the very first intimation that our troops were anywhere near, the
prisoners would have made a break.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
37
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