Awful warm and more sickly. About 3,500 have died since I
came here, which is a good many, come to think of it — cooked rations of bread
to-day. We get a quarter of a loaf of bread, weighing about six ounces, and
four or five ounces of pork. These are small allowances, but being cooked it is
better for us. Rebels are making promises of feeding us better, which we hope
they will keep. There is nothing the matter with me now but lack of food. The
scurvy symptoms which appeared a few weeks ago have all gone.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
55
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