TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This book has only two footnotes and they have been placed very close to their anchors. These anchors are denoted by [A] and [B].
The Table of Contents has been created by the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain.
This edition of the diary was self-published in 1881 by the author John Ransom. It had first been printed some years earlier in a Michigan newspaper. Many minor printer’s errors have been corrected in this etext, and are noted at the [end of the book]. Misspellings in the diary text have been left unchanged.
The ‘List of the Dead’ is printed following the diary itself and is essentially a reprint, in a similar but different format, of the source document held in the Library of Congress. This source list was compiled by the efforts of Dorence Atwater and Clara Barton, and can now be viewed online at https://www.loc.gov/item/37031864
This records the deaths of prisoners which occurred in the fourteen months between March 1864 and April 1865. It is organized by State, and names are listed alphabetically by first letter only. More details 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
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