CHAPTER V.

Return to Goldsboro'.--Drunk with Fever.--Too Sick to Walk.--Left Behind.--God Bless the Ladies of Goldsboro'.--Personal Experiences.--Negotiations for a Friend.--An Improvised Hospital.--Sick unto Death.--Semi-Consciousness.--More Kindness from the Ladies of Goldsboro'.--Paroled.--Passed into our Lines near Wilmington.--At Wilmington in the Hands of the Blue Coats.--Friend Lost.--Still very Sick with Fever.-- Determined to go North.--Efforts to get North.--On board Ship.--Ho, for Annapolis.--Incidents of the Voyage.-- Annapolis.--Getting Better.--Stomach Trouble.--Sent to Baltimore.--Furloughed Home 44