Got up bright and early, went to the creek and had a good
wash, came back, after a good walk over the prison, and ate my two large crackers
and small piece of bacon left over from yesterday, and again ready for whatever
may turn up. Lost my diminutive cake of soap in the water and must again take
to sand to scrub with, until fortune again favors me. Men are very restless and
reckless, uncertainty making them so. Try my very best not to have any words,
or trouble with them, but occasionally get drawn into it, as I did this
morning. Came out solid however. Is pretty well understood that I can take care
of myself. Noon. — Five hundred getting ready to go; my turn comes to-morrow,
and then we will see what we will see. Decided rumors that Sherman has taken
Atlanta and is marching toward Savannah, the heart of the Confederacy. All in
good spirits for the first time in a week.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
119
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