Have seen many of my old comrades of Andersonville, among
whom is my tried friend Sergt. Wm. B. Rowe; were heartily glad to see one another;
also little Bulluck who has improved wonderfully in appearance. Everyone is
pleased with this place and are cheerful, hoping and expecting to be released
before many weeks; they all report as having been well treated in Savannah and
have pleasant recollections of that place; from what could be seen of the city
by us prisoners it seems the handsomest one in America. Should judge it was a
very wealthy place. My duties as nurse are hard, often too much so for my
strength, yet the enforced exercise does me good and continue to improve all
the time. A cane will be necessary to my locomotion for a long time as am
afraid myself permanently injured; my cane is not a gold headed one; it is a
round picket which has been pulled off some fence. Very cheering accounts of
the war doings. All who want to can take the oath of allegiance to the
confederacy and be released; am happy to say though that out of all here, but
two or three has done so, and they are men who are a detriment to any army. The
weather now is beautiful, air refreshing, water ditto; all happy and contented
and await coming events with interest. Part of the brook, the lower part, is
planked and sides boarded up for sanitary privileges; water has also been
dammed up and a fall made which carries off the filth with force. Plenty of
wood to do cooking with and the men putter around with their cooking utensils
such as they have. Sort of prize fight going on now.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
110-1
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