Am now living splendid; vegetable diet is driving off the
scurvy and dropsy, in fact the dropsy has dropped out but the effect remains.
Set up now part of the time and talk like a runaway horse until tired out and
then collapse. Heard that all the prisoners are going to be sent to Millen, Ga.
Wrote a few lines directed to my father in Michigan. Am now given more food but
not much at a time. Two poor fellows in our tent do not get along as well as I
do, although Land is doing well and is going to be a nurse. The hospital is not
guarded very close and Mike Hoare cannot resist the temptation to escape. Well,
joy go with him. Dosed with quinine and beastly to take. Battese on his last
visit to me left the two first books of my diary which he had in his
possession. There is no doubt but he has saved my life, although he will take
no credit for it. It is said all were moved from Andersonville to different
points; ten thousand went to Florence, ten thousand to Charleston and ten
thousand to Savannah; but the dead stay there and will for all time to come.
What a terrible place and what a narrow escape I had of it Seems to me that
fifteen thousand died while I was there; an army almost and as many men as
inhabit a city of fifty thousand population.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
100
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