Entry by Samuel Elliot, October 31, 1864

    Source citation
    Samuel P. Bates, The History of Pennsyvlania Volunteers, 1861-65 (Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, 1869), 1: 732.
    Author (from)
    Elliot, Samuel
    Type
    Diary
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65 (1869), by Samuel P. Bates
    Adapted by Brenna McKelvey, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following transcript has been adapted from The History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65 (1869).
    Monday 31.-While at Andersonville I did not suppose the rebels had a worse prison in the' South, but I have now found out that they have. This den is ten times worse than that at Andersonville. Our rations are smaller and of poorer quality, wood more scarce, lice plentier, shelters worn out, and cold weather coming on. I -have stood my prison life wonderfully, but now I am commencing to feel it more sensibly, and am getting too weak to move about. To add to my misery I have the scurvy in the gums.
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