TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This book has only two footnotes and they have been placed veryclose to their anchors. These anchors are denoted by [A]and [B].
The Table of Contents has been created by the transcriber and ishereby placed in the public domain.
This edition of the diary was self-published in 1881 by the authorJohn Ransom. It had first been printed some years earlier in aMichigan newspaper. Many minor printer’s errors have been correctedin this etext, and are noted at the end of the book. Misspellingsin the diary text have been left unchanged.
The ‘List of the Dead’ is printed following the diary itself and isessentially a reprint, in a similar but different format, of thesource document held in the Library of Congress. This source listwas compiled by the efforts of Dorence Atwater and Clara Barton, andcan now be viewed online at https://www.loc.gov/item/37031864
This records the deaths of prisoners which occurred in the fourteenmonths between March 1864 and April 1865. It is organized by State,and names are listed alphabetically by first letter only. Moredetails can be found in the Transcriber Note at the end of the book.
Andersonville Diary,
ESCAPE,
——AND——
LIST OF THE DEAD,
——WITH——
Name, Co., Regiment, Date of Death
——AND——
No. of Grave in Cemetery.
JOHN L. RANSOM,
LATE FIRST SERGEANT NINTH MICH. CAV.,
AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER.
AUBURN, N. Y.
1881.
“Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by
John L. Ransom, in the office of the Librarian of
Congress, at Washington.”
DEDICATION.
TO THE
MOTHERS, WIVES AND SISTERS
OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES
ARE HEREIN RECORDED AS HAVING DIED
—IN—
ANDERSONVILLE,
THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
(From a photograph taken two months before capture.)