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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
in a tight box-car, only one door open, with no water and with nothing to eat. August 3.—Reached Andersonville at noon; stripped and searched again, then marched inside the Bull Pen, a nasty, filthy place of thirty acres, containing thirty thousand men; no filth removed; dead men carried out at all hours. After marching over the place, White and myself, with two others, found a place to pitch a tent; most of the boys have no shelter at all; drew some corn-bread and rotten bacon. August 4.—Not very well to-day; the trip on the cars disagreed with me. Weather hot and dry. The guard shot a man to-day for crossing the dead-line. August 5.—A shower, and very hot. August 6.—Not well to-day; took a good bath in the creek; got some coarse bread and little meat; no appetite; very warm night. August7.—Had a good night's sleep, notwithstanding the weather; took a bath and washed my shirt and drawers, the only ones I have. Pants well worn. Sent a letter home. Anot