The same old story, only worse, worse. It seems all the time
it was as bad as could be, but is not. They die now like sheep — fully a
hundred each day. New prisoners come inside in squads of hundreds, and in a few
weeks are all dead The change is too great and sudden for them. Old
prisoners stand it the best. Found a Jackson, Michigan man, who says I am
reported dead there. Am not, however, and may appear to them yet. Jimmy Devers
is very bad with the scurvy and dropsy and will probably die if relief does not
come. Sergt. Rowe also is afflicted; in fact all the mess except Battese He
does all the cooking now. He has made me a cane to walk with, brings water from
the well, and performs nearly all the manual labor for us. He is a jewel, but a
rough one.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
71-2
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