CHAPTER XX. PRISONERS OF THE UNITED STATES.

We Have an All-Night Ride to Augusta—Our Party of Prisoners Augments—I am Made Responsible for My Husband’s Appearance and We Go Visiting—We Return to Captivity—I Board the Boat Somewhat Hastily—And Unexpectedly Find Myself in the Arms of General Wheeler—He Gives Me a Lesson in Forbearance—A Dismal Voyage—We Reach Savannah and Are Transferred to the _Clyde_—Extracts from My Diary—Mr. Davis’s Stoicism—We Anchor Off Fortress Monroe—Mr. Clay Is Invited “to Take a Ride in a Tug”—Pathetic Separation of the Davis Family—Little Jeff Becomes Our Champion—We See a Gay Shallop Approaching—Two Ladies Appear and Search Us in the Name of the United States Government—A Serio-comic Encounter—And Still Another in Which “Mrs. Clay Lost Her Temper and Counselled Resistance!”—We Undertake to Deceive Lieutenant Hudson, but “Laugh on the Other Side” of Our Faces! 258