The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16
CHAPTER XVI.
JouRNEYING TO THE UNION LINES.

JoUREEYING To THE UNION LINES.
The next morning the jailer put me
back in the room had occupied with the
remainder of my comrades. I was much
amused when he told me that a man had
put his hand over his mouth and nearly
smothered him, but he added, with great
seeming satisfaction: ''I bit his finger
terribly, and gave the rascal a mark ne
will carry to his grave" However, he
had not bitten as severely as he supposed,
as / had received only slight scratch
that healed in a week or two. had
always been rather a faYorite with him,
and he had no suspicion that l was. the
guilty person, as his fright had prevented
him from observing anything closely.
He spoke in strong complaint of the in
gratitude OF our companions, saying that
he had been kind to them, and this was
the return he got for it. While we re-
manned with him he watched more closely,S
though he supposed he was flattering us
by saying that he had no doubt the men
who had gone of were much worse than
we.
Some time in the forenoon several
officers came to see US in no mild humor
and one roughly demanded the course our
boys intended to travel had no deli
cacy whatever about giving the informa-
ton; even took q good deal of pleasure
in telling him that they had said that
<AbA1AltL was al Iuc OL WuaO WIS
left of the Confederacy, and that they
were going to travel toward the outside!
The officer was so well satisfied with this
information that he asked no more ques-
tionsl
But it was herculean task upon which
our brave boys had entered, and my state
ment to the marshal was literally correct,
though it could be of little use to him.
cannot look back upon what they did
without thinking that in dangers en-
countered and obstacles overcome, the
| proudest exploits of Livingstone or Stanley
were not superior.
A whole volume would be required for
the adventures in detail Of these different
parties, but some brief account seems
The different narratives have been fur
nished me for publication by the parties
themselves or are condensed and revised
| from accounts published by them, some
very near the time of the return of the
| fugitfves. The story in each case was of
newspapers were glad of the privilege of
laying it before their readers. These
different accounts have been carefully
compared, and any paragraphs which
have only passing or local interest have
been omitted.
The first story is that OF our engineers,
and is furnished by knight, with a few
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They were the foremost of the whole party
in the run for the woods, as they had been
in attacking the guard. knight says:
We started for the woods that were about q
mile distant. We ran through gardens or any
| thing else that came in the way, kicking the
plckets of several garden fences IS the easiest
| way to get over them. 10 say were tired oui
| when we reached the woods does not half express
| our condition The woods was but narrow, and
we only stopped there long enough to catch oul
wind and then pressed on again Mason. Dorsey
and Hawkins were now with U.S. We next en-
tered big field, IN the middle OF which was
deep raSine with brush grown up % Il. Here VI
rested aad took our beaEings and then travels
on Mason now began to get sick but We Eorke'
him along TIL dark; then through the night "
moved along slowly, secreting ourselves goo
Durinr the day we hid, but some men cause
Ils 10 GLANCE our position once twice to ayoi
them. The second night We also made but It'll
| uroeress on aceount Of AAsone sickness. an
| amer hiding all day again, We SIN FOUND him q
4 befter We held Consultation, Mason urg1n
| US to leave him to his fate and save ourselves
But ne decided not to leave HMM the Wcodss 9
any rate.
road between two main roads, about mn
/ apart ard with woods near. So Brown and
went TO the house and asked for lodging, tellin
| the man that one OF cur number was sick. u
did not wish 70 keep Us, but NE told hum We Wei
1 going % stay, as We could 50 no furtnef-
Yielded and gave rs our supper. Mason was pt
| "a bed, and we stald up with him part Of =
ulEhk end then went 70 bed ourselves and hAd