A rebel battery came to-day on the cars, and is being posted
around the stockade. Ever since my introduction to Andersonville they have been
constantly at work making their prison stronger, until now I believe it is
impossible for a person to get away. Notwithstanding, there are men a 1 the
time at work in divers ways. Rebel officers now say that we are not going to be
exchanged during the war, and as they can hold us now and no fear of escape,
they had just as soon tell us the truth as not, and we must take things just as
they see fit to give them to us. Tom McGill is well and hearty, and as black as
any negro. Over 19,000 confined here now, and the death rate ninety or one
hundred.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
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