The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-14

OF 1T was TO get rope, and we bought one
for 80 pretending that we wanted 1t for
game. We inaugurated the game Of Co
penhagen in the prison with this, and one
night when the confederates in the prison
were all asleep we tied this to the iron bars
and slipped out We intended to wait for
a dark night, but none coming we tried to
escape when it was bright moonlight The
last man who got out scraped the wall with
his foot, and the guard heard him and
made for US. The result was we were cap
tured after lively run ana were carried
back to Tyler. My prison life altogether
lasted about ten MONTHS and as look over
ths nardships of it, and those Of nv at
tempted escapes wonder that was able
to endure them.''
Representative Grady, of North Carolina,
served three months in Camp Butler about
ssven miles from Springfield, Illinois. He
WAS captured at Arkansas Post by General
Sherman, and carried on q boat north to
Memphis and thence to Camp Butler.
After he was through with his prison life
he was taken SOUTH and an attempt was
made to escape by cutting hole through
the box of the Car but this was discovered
and frustrated.
Representative Kilgore, of Texas, entered
the army as lieutenant, and was an adiu-
tant-general Of the confederate army of
Tennessee when he was wounded at Chick
amauga. He was captured during this bat
tle and was carried to Camp Morton at
Indianapolis, and thence taken to Camp
Chase and to Fort Delaware. At Fort
Delaware he had
PLANNED TO ESCAPE.
He was in the barracks outside the fort,
and several of his fellow prisoners and
himself planned to Jump into the water
and swim for it to Delaware city. One or
two of the men did get away in this way
but General kilgore was not among them
and he remained in the fort until he was
exchanged.
Representative Buchanan, of Virginia.
was taken prisoner at Gettysburg on the
Bird of July. 1868, and he remained in Fort
Delaware until 1865, when he was ex-
changed.
Representative Rice A. Pierce, of Tenpes-
see, was wounded and captured in q cav
airy fight near Jacksonville, Tennessee,
IN 1864, and was in the northern prisons
! during the war.
| Representative Andrew Stewart, of
| Pennsylvania, entered the army as pri-
vate, and came out of it an adjutant-gen-
eral. He was confined in Libby, Macon,
Charleston, Columbia and other southern
prisons for over year. and can sing the
whole gamut of prison woes.
Representative Elijah Adams Morse, the
| AeASALS 1du hOOOfO pOAinh SOhh ASooAhe@Ht
| from Massachusetts, entered the army in
the Fourth Massachusetts regiment at
nineteen years of age, and he was in charge
of 500 contrabands at Brashear, Louisiana,
when he was captured. He was in the
| hands OF the Confederates for only very
short TINA and was soon paroled.
| John r. Follows, Of New York, was in
the southern army, and he was q staff
| officer under General Van Doren's depart
ment when he was captured at the sur
render OF Port Hudson. He was impris-
oned at Johnson's island for some time and
then sent south and released at Fort Dele
ware. He describes the life at Johnson g
island as not at all bad as prison expert
ence, and says the prisoners were made ur
of officers, and that they had lectures and
schools and different kinds of games
Colonel Fellows is said to be one of the
most active Observation-Disclosures of this
prison, and at one time he was part of al
amateur troupe there that gave the old
| time farce Of BOX and Cox" in which
Colonel Fellows took the part of Box. He
| says that the bill of fare was by no means
that of Delmonico's, still for prison fare il
was not terribly bad.
| FRANK G. CARPENTER.