Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead" is a poignant account written by John L. Ransom, a Union soldier during the American Civil War. John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary which he published some few years after the end of the Civil War.