It seems to me as if three times as many as ever before are
now going off, still I am told that about one hundred and thirty die per day.
The reason it seems worse, is because no sick are being taken out now, and they
all die here instead of at the hospital. Can see the dead wagon loaded up with
twenty or thirty, bodies at a time, two lengths, just like four foot wood is
loaded on to a wagon at the North, and away they go to the grave yard on a
trot. Perhaps one or two will fall off and get run over. No attention paid to
that; they are picked up on the road back after more. Was ever before in this
world anything so terrible happening? Many entirely naked.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
72
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