It is now as hot
and sultry as it was ever my lot to witness. The cloudy weather and recent
rains make everything damp and sticky. We don't any of us sweat though,
particularly, as we are pretty well dried up. Laying on the ground so much has
made sores on nearly every one here, and in many cases gangrene sets in and
they are very bad off. Have many sores on my body, but am careful to keep away
the poison. To-day saw a man with a bullet hole in his head over an inch deep,
and you could look down in it and see maggots squirming around at the bottom.
Such things are terrible, but of common occurrence. Andersonville seems to be
head-quarters for all the little pests that ever originated — flies by the
thousand millions. I have got into one bad scrape, and the one thing now is to
get out of it. Can do nothing but take as good care of myself as possible,
which I do. Battese works all the time at something. Has scrubbed his hands
sore, using sand for soap.
SOURCE: John L.
Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p. 66-7
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