Two men got away during the night and were brought back
before noon. (Was going to say before dinner) The men are torn by the dogs, and
one of them full of buck shot. A funny way of escape has just been discovered
by Wirtz. A man pretends to be dead and is carried out on a stretcher and left
with the row of dead. As soon as it gets dark, Mr. Dead-man jumps up and runs.
Wirtz suspecting the trick took to watching, and discovered a “dead man”
running away. An examination now takes place by the surgeon before being
permitted out from under guard. I hear a number of men have gotten away by this
method, and it seems very probable, as dead men are so plenty that not much
attention is paid to them.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
58
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