Ran very slow through the night, and are in the vicininy of
Macon, Ga. Will reach our prison to-night. Received a pone of corn bread apiece
weighing about two pounds, which is liberal on their part Two more days such
riding as this would kill me The lice are fairly eating us up alive, having had
no chance to rid ourselves of them since leaving Richmond. One of the guards
struck Hendryx during the night. We were talking on the all important subject,
and the guard hearing us chatting away to ourselves struck over into the croud
where the noise came from and hit George in the back part of the head. He
didn't speak for a minute or two and I was afraid it had killed him, which
happily proved to the contrary. As soon as it came daylight he showed the brute
where he had struck him, and took the occasion to dress him down a little,
whereupon the rebel threatened that if he said another word to him he would
blow his head off. A drizzling rain has set in.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
39-40
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