Am feeling splendid, and legs most straight. Getting fat fast. Am to be
a nurse soon. Reported that they are moving prisoners to Millen. Over a
thousand went yesterday. About ten thousand of the Andersonville prisoners came
to Savannah, ten thousand went to Florence and ten to Charleston, S. C. Only
the sick were left behind there, and it is said they died like sheep after the
well ones went away. Great excitement among the Gray-coats. Some bad army news
for them, I reckon. Negroes at work fortifying about the city.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p. 106-7
