Talk of Millen, about ninety miles from here. Mike will
trade off the rings to-night. Owe Sergt. Winn $12 for onions and sweet
potatoes, confederate money however; a dollar corded, is only ten cents in
money. Hub Dakin, from Dansville, Mich., is in this hospital. It is said
Savannah will be in our hands in less than two months. Some Irish citizens told
Mike so. Union army victorious everywhere. Going on twelve months a prisoner of
war. Don't want to be exchanged now; could not stand the journey home; just
want to be let alone one month and then home and friends. Saw myself in a
looking glass for the first time in ten months and am the worst looking
specimen don't want to go home in twelve years unless I look different from
this; almost inclined to disown myself. Pitch pine smoke is getting peeled off;
need skinning. Eye sight improving with other troubles. Can't begin to read a
newspaper and with difficulty write a little at a time Can hear big guns every
morning from down the river; it is said to be yankee gunboats bidding the city
of Savannah “good morning.”
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
101-2
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