The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-03-05

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neiehbcr said. when your bones gst
tired and you want to turn over you give
the command and al wheel over together.
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dicular but never in horizontal before.
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made one feel funny. II va done 70 ~
that ws were al there. There Vas sut-
Ter there named Stsrks. He vas favor.
ite. When his right eys looked on ycu.
you could not tell where his left eye w
ranging. SsArks looked at me. and said,
"Somstimes We are here. sometimes W
are not" fsand out to escape vas
dream by nishtsnd . conspiracy by day.
One night some OF the men escaped
tunnel, sixty feet long. More
would have escaped, only fat man got
jsmmsd 10. 1t was the grandest escspads
in the campaign. Whom man escaped
hs was hunted dswn With bloodhosnds
have seen Nsro, the head Of them. my
sslf. l tried 10 cultivate : friendship but
did not succeed. A solorsd man told me
Ehsrs was no trouble getting rid oi the
hounds. All you havs 70 do 4 70 dig :
hole with your heel. all II With cayenne
pepper. and when tho dog shifted il he
would give up the chase.
We started school il the prison and
had lessons in German, French, Latin and
Greek, and We had lsw school. The
only graduste vs p. F. Black, member
asw Of Bcsohsr's church. When l lsfs
shs prison hs told me ~ tell the ysuug
ady in Cincinuati that be would not 60 TO
College again. Lns would narry her As
'son ~ hs got home. Ibid 40 aud she
vas glad 10 hear it. l mst her afterward
IN Fulton street. He had carried out the
programme. We started weekly paper.
Every Sunday ws cams together to hear
I read. The articles wsrs written on al |
Iorts Of papcr, in ink and in pencil. The
'rowd would roar with laughter and the
Iuard would Say: "Thsy ars having good |
ime." We resolved not TO have sur fun- |
'ral before we died.
On day " we're called down stairs; ssv- |
,ral captains and two ehaplAins. There
vas little table With . box on Il; we we're
old two men must be selected for sxscu--
ion. We we're to pick ont the names from |
be bex. The names were Sawyer and
lynn. They were sent to The dungeon
md We we're sent up stairs. We wrote
sttsr 10 President Lincoln. One oi our
lumber who was exchanged that day pat Il
N the sole Of bis boot He teok il y
lincoln. Fitx Hugh Les aud Csptais
vysndsr. son Of The man who ordered
be execution. had been captured. Nj.
lincoln ordered thsm in the easement q
'crtress Monroe snd sent word 10 Wyan-
Ter that il Sswyer and Flynn we're exsca-
ID. Hugh and Wysndsr shoald share tile
ame fate They wsro not sxscutsd.
When W hrst heard Of The battle Of
lefty sbnrg w heard the Union army was
'eaten. We were Ill sick. Rut whsn W
eard the correct report there was sud.
sn resurrection snd The cir rang with
ongs W. wanted 10 celebrate the
'ourth. We hsa no nag We cast around.
IN inventive genins made ono u blue,
"a aud white. On the morning oi the
'ourth il WAS nailed y . rAitsr On the
nDf. A guard sav Il asd ordsrsd Il taksu
own. Gen. Dir had said: III my man
ares 10 take down tbut Dag. shot him o.
he spot" We did not want TO be shot.
Q We did not take II down. The guard
ID. But We celebrated I'll isy.
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