At about six or seven o'clock last night six hundred men
were taken away, making in all twelve hundred for the day; another six hundred
are ready to go at a moment's notice. I don't know what to think. Can hardly
believe they go to our lines. Seems almost like a funeral procession to me, as
they go through the gate. Rowe and Hub Dakin talk of going to day, if any go,
having decided to flank, I have concluded to wait until it is my turn to go. If
it is an exchange there is no danger but all will go, and if not an exchange
would rather be here than any place I know of now. Later —Eight hundred have gone, with Rowe and Dakin in the
crowd, and I am here alone as regards personal friends. Could not be induced to
go with them. Have a sort of presentiment that all is not right. Still later. —Six hundred more have
gone, making 2,600 all together that have departed, all heavily guarded.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
116-7
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