Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=.
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.
On handheld devices this long list is best viewed in landscape mode
using a monospace font.
Andersonville Diary,