CHAPTER XI.

WORK IN STOCKADES AND PRISON CAMPS IN SOUTHERN STATES.

Race Question--Letters of Introduction and Recommendation--A Stockade--Letter to a Governor--Reply of Prison Manager--Plea for Women Convicts--Bloodhounds--Coal Mines--A Touching Incident--First Meeting in a Prison Camp--Ride on Engine of a Coal Train--First Railroad Pass--Ride on a Mule 187