The impression is growing that the situation is more and more unfavorable every day. Hospitals are overflowing with sick and no more admitta...

A week of rain. Five hundred more prisoners, twenty being marines, captured as late as May 27th. Since yesterday morning the number of death...

Four days I have been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble. I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. F...

Last night "raiders" attempted to profit by their vile practices. "Moseby's" (this name is given one of the chiefs) ...

Christmas day and didn't hang up my stocking. No matter, it wouldn't have held anything. Last Christmas we spent on Belle Island, l...

Guard said that orders were not to talk with any of the prisoners, and above all not to let us get hold of any newspapers. No citizens are ...

About a hundred convalescents were taken outside today to be sent away to our lines the officials told us. At a later hour the commander ca...

Did not write any yesterday. A man named Hinton died in our tent at about two o'clock this morning, and his bunk is already filled by a...

All in Andersonville will remember Daly, who used to drive the bread wagon into that place. He came to Savannah with us and was in this hos...

Am now living splendid; vegetable diet is driving off the scurvy and dropsy, in fact the dropsy has dropped out but the effect remains. Set...

The hospital is crowded now with sick; about thirty die now each day. Men who walked away from Andersonville, and come to get treatment, ar...

A prisoner of war nearly a year have stood and went through the very worst kind of treatment. Am getting ravenously hungry, but they won...

Am really getting better and hopeful. Battese has the two first books of my diary; would like to see him. Was mistaken about Rowe being in ...

The nice spring of cold water still flows and furnishes drinking water for all; police guard it night and day so to be taken away only in s...

No news and no worse; set up part of the time. Dying off a third faster than ever before. SOURCE: John L. Ransom,  Andersonville Dia...

Hanging on yet. A good many more than two hundred and twenty-five die now in twenty-four hours. Messes that have stopped near us are all de...

Some say three hundred now die each day No more new men coming. Reported that Wirtz is dead. SOURCE: John L. Ransom,  Andersonville ...

Two hundred and twenty die each day. No more news of exchange. SOURCE: John L. Ransom,  Andersonville Diary , p. 91

Rowe getting very bad. Sanders ditto. Am myself much worse, and cannot walk, and with difficulty stand up. Legs drawn up like a triangle, m...

Sweltering hot. No worse than yesterday. Said that two hundred die now each day Rowe very bad and Sanders getting so. Swan dead, Gordon dea...