The whole camp in a blaze of excitement. Plans for the
outbreak known to Capt. Wirtz. Some traitor unfolded the plans to him Thirty or
forty pieces of artillery pointed at us from the outside, and stockade covered
with guards who shoot right and left. Thirty or forty outsiders sent inside,
and they tell us how the affair was found out. A number of the ring leaders are
undergoing punishment. Hendryx has made his escape, and not been heard of since
yesterday. It is said he went away in full Confederate dress, armed, and
furnished with a guide to conduct him. Dr. Lewis died to-day. Jack Walker told
us about his death. Capt. Wirtz has posted up on the inside a notice for us to
read. The following is the notice:
NOTICE.
Not wishing to shed the blood of
hundreds not connected with those who concocted a plan to force the stockade,
and make in this way their escape. I hereby warn the leaders and those who
formed themselves into a band to carry out this, that I am in possession of all
the facts, and have made my arrangements accordingly, so to frustrate it. No
choice would be left me but to open with grape and cannister on the stockade,
and what effect this would have in this densely crowded place need not be told.
Signed,
H. Wirtz.
June 10, 1864
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
65-6
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