Category: Biographies
Speech of Colonel Drane--Submission Denounced--Northern Aggression--No more Slave States--Northern _isms_--Yankees' Servants--Yankee inferiority--Breckinridge, or immediate, complete, and eternal Separation--A Day of Rejoicing--Abraham Lincoln, President elect--A Union Speech-...
The Second Plan of Escape--Under the Jail--Egress--Among the Guards--In the Swamp--Travelling on the Underground Railroad--The Fare--Green Corn eaten Raw--Blackberries and Stagn...
13. CHAPTER III.High price of Provisions--Holland Lindsay's Family--The arrest--Captain Hill--Appearance before Colonel Bradfute at Fulton--Arrest of Benjamin Clarke--Bradfute's Insolence--Gene...
11. CHAPTER I.Speech of Colonel Drane.--Submission Denounced.--Northern Aggression.--No more Slave States.--Northern _isms_.--Yankees' Servants.--Yankee inferiority.--Breckinridge, or immedia...
17. CHAPTER VII.Sandhillers--Dirt-eating--Dipping--Their Mode of Living--Patois--Rain-book--Wife-trade--Coming in to see the Cars--Superstition--Marriage of Kinsfolks--Hardshell Sermon--Causes...
14. CHAPTER IV.Parson Aughey as Chaplain--Description of the Prisoners--Colonel Walter, the Judge Advocate--Charges and Specifications against Parson Aughey--A Citizen of the Confederate State...
15. CHAPTER V.Resolved to Escape--Mode of Executing Prisoners--Removal of Chain--Addition to our Numbers--Two Prisoners become Insane--Plan of Escape--Proves a Failure--Fetters Inspected--Add...
12. CHAPTER II.The election of Delegates to determine the status of Mississippi--The Vigilance Committee--Description of its members--Charges--Phonography--No formal verdict--Danger of Assassi...
19. CHAPTER IX.Cause of the Rebellion--Prevalence of Union Sentiment in the South--Why not Developed--Stevenson's Views--Why Incorrect--Cavalry Raids upon Union Citizens--How the Rebels employ...
20. CHAPTER X.The battle of Leesburg was fought on the 21st of October, 1861. The southern accounts of this battle were so contradictory, that I will not give the various versions. One statem...
18. CHAPTER VIII.Colonel Jefferson Davis--His Speech at Holly Springs, Mississippi--His Opposition to Yankee Teachers and Ministers--A bid for the Presidency--His Ambition--Burr, Arnold, Davis--...
7. CHAPTER VII.Sandhillers--Dirt-eating--Dipping--Their Mode of Living-- Patois--Rain-book--Wife-trade--Coming in to see the Cars-- Superstition--Marriage of Kinsfolks--Hardshell Sermon--Cause...
4. CHAPTER IV.Parson Aughey as Chaplain--Description of the Prisoners-- Colonel Walter, the Judge Advocate--Charges and Specifications against Parson Aughey, a Citizen of the Confederate Stat...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Second Plan of Escape--Under the Jail--Egress--Among the Guards--In the Swamp--Travelling on the Underground Railroad--The Fare--Green Corn eaten Raw--Blackberries and Stagn...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Colonel Jefferson Davis--His Speech at Holly Springs, Mississippi--His Opposition to Yankee Teachers and Ministers--A bid for the Presidency--His Ambition--Burr, Arnold, Davis--...
3. CHAPTER III.High price of Provisions--Holland Lindsay's Family--The arrest--Captain Hill--Appearance before Colonel Bradfute at Fulton--Arrest of Benjamin Clarke--Bradfute's Insolence-- Gen...
9. CHAPTER IX.Cause of the Rebellion--Prevalence of Union Sentiment in the South--Why not Developed--Stevenson's Views--Why Incorrect-- Cavalry Raids upon Union Citizens--How the Rebels emplo...
5. CHAPTER V.Resolved to Escape--Mode of Executing Prisoners--Removal of Chain--Addition to our Numbers--Two Prisoners become Insane-- Plan of Escape--Proves a Failure--Fetters Inspected-- A...
1. CHAPTER I.Speech of Colonel Drane--Submission Denounced--Northern Aggression--No more Slave States--Northern _isms_--Yankees' Servants--Yankee inferiority--Breckinridge, or immediate, com...
2. CHAPTER II.The election of Delegates to determine the status of Mississippi--The Vigilance Committee--Description of its members--Charges--Phonography--No formal verdict--Danger of Assassi...
10. CHAPTER X.