We have stopped wondering at suffering or being surprised at
anything. Can't do the subject justice and so don't try. Walk around camp every
morning looking for acquaintances, the sick, &c. can see a dozen most any
morning laying around dead A great many are terribly afflicted with diarrhea
and scurvy begins to take hold of some. Scurvy is a bad disease, and taken in
connection with the former is sure death. Some have dropsy as well as scurvy,
and the swollen limbs and body are sad to see. To think that these victims have
people at home, mothers, wives and sisters, who are thinking of them and would
do much for them if they had the chance, little dreaming of their condition.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
46
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