All in Andersonville
will remember Daly, who used to drive the bread wagon into that place. He came
to Savannah with us and was in this hospital; a few days ago he went away with some
sailors to be exchanged. Soon after leaving Savannah he fell off the cars and
was killed, and a few hours after leaving here was brought back and buried; it
is said he had been drinking. Getting better every day, eat right smart. Mike
waiting for a favorable chance to escape and in the meantime is getting well;
heard that Battese has gone away with sailors to our lines Its wonderful the
noticeable change of air here from that at Andersonville — wonder that any
lived a month inhaling the poison. If some of those good fellows that died
there, Jimmy Devers, Dr. Lewis, Swain, McGuire and scores of others, had lived
through it to go home with me, should feel better. Have a disagreeable task to
perform — that of going to see the relatives of fifteen or twenty who died and
deliver messages. Rebel surgeons act as if the war was most over, and not like
very bad enemies. Fresh beef issued to those able to eat it which is not me;
can chew nothing hard, in fact cannot chew at all. Am all tired out and will
stop for to-day.
SOURCE: John L.
Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p. 100-1
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