Chapter 17

PRISON LIFE.

Mournful news.--How a brave man dies.--New Year's day.--Jolly under unfavorable circumstances.--Major Turner pays his respects.-- Punishment for singing "villainous Yankee songs."--Confederate General John Morgan.--Plans for escape.--Digging their way to freedom.--"Poet No. 1, All's well."--Yankee ingenuity.--The tunnel ready.--Muscle the trump card.--No respect to rank.--_Sauve qui peut!_--A strategic movement.--"Guards! guards!"--Absentees from muster.--Disappointed hopes.--Savage treatment of prisoners.--Was the prison mined? 179