Sabbath day and hot. Would give anything for some shade to
lay in. Even this luxury is denied us, and we are obliged to crawl around more
dead than alive. Rumors that Sherman is marching towards Atlanta, and that
place threatened. Kilpatrick said to be moving toward us for the purpose of
effecting our release. Hope he will be more successful than in his attack on
Richmond. Rebels have dug a deep ditch all around on the outside of the wall to
prevent tunneling, and a guard walks in the bottom of the ditch. Banghart, of
my Regiment, died to-day.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
57-8
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