All the mess slowly but none the less surely succumbing to
the diseases incident here. We are not what you may call hungry. I have
actually felt the pangs of hunger more when I was a boy going home from school
to dinner. But we are sick and faint and all broken down, feverish &c. It
is starvation and disease and exposure that is doing it Our stomachs have been
so abused by the stuff called bread and soups, that they are diseased. The
bread is coarse and musty. Believe that half in camp would die now if given
rich food to eat.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
69
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