Boiling hot, camp reeking with filth, and no sanitary
privileges; men dying off over a hundred and forty per day. Stockade enlarged,
taking in eight or ten more acres, giving us more room, and stumps to dig up
for wood to cook with. Mike Hoare is in good, health; not so Jimmy Devers. Jimmy
has now been a prisoner over a year, and poor boy, will probably die soon. Have
more mementoes than I can carry, from those who have died, to be given to their
friends at home. At least a dozen have given me letters, pictures &c., to
take North. Hope I shan't have to turn them over to some one else.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
77
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