Pleasant and rather cool. My hair is playing me pranks. It
grows straight up in the air and only on the topmost part of my head. Where a
man is generally bald, it's right the other way with me. If there is anything
else that can happen to make me any more ridiculous, now is the time for it to
appear. About all I lack now is to have an eye gouged out. A friend says that
the reason my hair grows the way it does is because I have been scared so much,
and it has stuck up straight so much, that it naturally has a tendency that way
Perhaps that is it. If I thought we were to stay here for any length of time
would open up a hair cutting shop; but should hate to get nicely started in
business and a trade worked up, then have an exchange come along and knock the
whole thing in the head. We are not far from the railroad track, and can listen
to the cars going by very often Confederate troops occupy them and they give
the old familiar rebel yell. Once in a while the Yanks get up steam enough to
give a good hurrah back to them. Seems to be a good deal of transferring troops
now in the South I watch all the movements of the rebels and can draw
conclusions, and am of the opinion that Mr. Confederacy is about whipped and
will soon surrender. It certainly looks that way to me. Rumors that we are to
be moved.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
114
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