Northeast storm
badly affects weak men. I know of twenty who since yesterday have sunk to utter
helplessness; others have died within a few hours. Their clothes are besmeared
with wet sand and soaked with water. The sand where we lay is wet as dough. Our
rations are so insufficient that we are continually hungry. Got boiled rice
again at night, totally unfit to eat. Several bushels are poured into large
kettles, greasy and nasty, and cooked with less care than if it were hog feed.
I believe hogs would loathe it. If it is merely economy to feed us so, it is
crowding them down closely to the provision line. Rumors of the renomination of
Lincoln and the nomination of Fremont on a side line. It is a Rebel lie or a
Yankee blunder, much talked about. If it is so, the action of the Fremont wing
is disapproved. I never strongly believed in Fremont, but the cause he essayed
to represent, he will not see sacrificed for per
Northeast storm.
Badly affects weak ultra anti-slavery men add themselves to the pro-slavery
party North, and defeat the policy of the government? They cannot succeed; they
can only defeat. The feeling here is for Lincoln. Twelve men escape; it is
reported six guards are gone. Tunnels are found and being filled. Rice and meal
rations.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 74-5
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