No news of importance. Same old story. Am now a gallant
washer-man. Battese, the Minnesota Indian, learn't me in the way of his
occupation, made me a wash board by cutting creases in a piece of board, and I
am fully installed. We have a sign out, made by myself on a piece of shingle: “WASHING.”
We get small pieces of bread for our labors, some of the sick cannot eat their
bread, and not being able to keep clean, give us a job Make probably a pound of
bread two or three days in the week. Battese says: “I work, do me good; you do
same.” Have many applications for admission to the firm, and may enlarge the
business.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
60
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