The fine weather still continues. Just warm enough, and
favorable for prisoners. Food now we get but once a day — not all we want, but
three times as much as issued at Andersonville and of good quality The officer
in command, as I have said before, is the kind hearted man, and on his
appearance inside he was besieged by hundreds of applications for favors and
for the privilege of going outside on parole of honor. He began granting such
favors as he could, but has been besieged too much and now stays outside. Has,
however, put up a letter box on the inside so that letters will reach him, and
every day it is filled half full. Occasionally he takes to a letter and sends
inside for the writer of it, and that one answered is the occasion of a fresh
batch, until it is said that the poor man harrassed about as much as the
President of the United States is for fat offices As I have before remarked in
my diary, the Yankee is a queer animal.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
111
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