Blank cartridges were this morning fired over the camp by
the artillery, and immediately the greatest commotion outside. It seems that
the signal in case a break is made, is cannon firing. And this was to show us
how quick they could rally and get into shape In less time than it takes for me
to write it, all were at their posts and in condition to open up and kill
nine-tenths of all here. Sweltering hot. Dying off one hundred and fifty-five each
day. There are twenty-eight thousand confined here now.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
87
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