Category: Biographies
CAPTURE--PRISON AT RICHMOND--AT DANVILLE--SMALL-POX--HOSPITAL AND CONVALESCENT CAMP--WARD-MASTER AND NURSES--ESCAPE PROM THE GUARDS--TRAIN OF CARS--FOILED AT SEVEN-MILE FERRY--NARROW ESCAPE--HIDING IN CAROLINA--CROSSING DAN RIVER--SINGING AND DANCING--EATING AT MIDNIGHT--SABBA...
As a conclusion to the foregoing imperfect sketches, we will briefly narrate an incident which happened after our arrival within the lines. On March 23d, at Camp Reynolds, while...
2. CHAPTER II.SLEEP DISTURBED--NOISE IN THE WOODS--ITS CAUSE--NEGROES FURNISH FOOD--WE HIDE NEAR THE TRAIL--HOUNDS AND HORSEMEN--EXCITEMENT OF THE CHASE--WE BUY A QUANTITY OF PROVISIONS--OUR...
1. CHAPTER I.CAPTURE--PRISON AT RICHMOND--AT DANVILLE--SMALL-POX--HOSPITAL AND CONVALESCENT CAMP--WARD-MASTER AND NURSES--ESCAPE PROM THE GUARDS--TRAIN OF CARS--FOILED AT SEVEN-MILE FERRY--N...
3. CHAPTER III.PROVISIONS GONE--CROSS THE BLUE RIDGE--SECURING FOOD--GOING THROUGH BIG LICK--RAIN AND DARKNESS--WE ARE COMPELLED TO SEEK SHELTER--LYING OVER--THE TOBACCO--ITS OWNER--MORE FOOD...
5. CHAPTER V.ACROSS RIDGE AND VALLEY--WE SEE NEW CASTLE IN THE DISTANCE--CHILDREN SCARED--WOMEN AMAZED--WE VISIT THEM--THEY THINK WE ARE "SECESH"--WE THINK THEY ARE "SECESH"--EACH PARTY MIST...
6. CHAPTER VI."HAD NO HORNS LATELY"--WE REACH HEPLER'S--HE IS ON HIS GUARD--WE KNOW HOW TO TAKE HIM--SUPPER AND LODGING--ADIEU TO HEPLER--WE GO TO LEWIS'S HOUSE--LEWIS NOT AT HOME--TROUBLE AT...
7. CHAPTER VII.ARE GUIDED BY NIGHT TO ALDERMAN--ALDERMAN CONDUCTS US TWENTY MILES NEXT DAY--GIVES US PLAIN DIRECTIONS--RETURNS HOME--WE FIND ALDERMAN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, WHO PUTS US ON THE NORTH...
4. CHAPTER IV.AWAKENED--WATCHING IN AMBUSH--AVERILL'S CAVALRY--WOMAN MAKING SUGAR--WE SEE MEN DRESSED IN BLUE--DECEIVING THE WOMAN--CHANGE OF BASE--MISLEADING PURSUERS--WE EAT LAST OF OUR SUP...