Several shots fired
during the night, one from a cannon, the shot screaming overhead. Yesterday and
today's arrival of prisoners is about 1,200. White flags are put in the center
of the prison to designate ground on which crowds must not assemble. If they do
they will be fired upon. Accordingly men are constantly at the guns.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, pp. 94
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