A signal light suspended over the island all last night for
some reason unknown to the men confined here. We are cautioned against
approaching within eight or ten feet from the bank. One of the raiders went
through a man who lay near the bank and started to run after robbing him. A
guard who saw the whole affair shot the villain dead and was applauded by all
who knew of the affair. Fifteen or twenty carried out this morning dead and
thirty or forty nearly so in blankets.
SOURCE: John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary, p.
25
