The National tribune., 1899-04-13
pRISOp~pEu AND SWAMP.
Massachusetts, Cavalymans Escape and Suerngs Attend
ing His Attempt to Reach the Union Lines.


| bade me follow. He took me to corn-shucl
| house and told me TO ascend 4 ladder that ht
| set mp against the barn where there was az
opening, and back into n hole he had made
for me in the shncks.
did rs he directed. He brought up my
haversacli and told me he would come back
after awhile and bring me something to eat,
and not 10 make any noise or let myself bt
seen by any one, for if / was found in his
care it would cost the freedom of himself and
family. | promised him to be careful, and
ne left me and took the ladder away. He
soon returned, however, bringing me some
thing to eat and a canteen full of water. He
then left me until night.
That night he took me to his cabin, as he
wanted ne see his wife and three little girls.
aud tell them about the war. They were
octorouns, and rs handsome as one could wish
TO see. l spent the evening with them,
telling them about the Moth, how the war
was progressing, and explained to them how
that Lincoln had freed the slaves, ETC., all OF
which pleased them wonderfully. He then
told me that l must stop there until he could
20 on to the next station and prepare them
to receive NE, which he could do the next
day.
/ babe them good light and again crawled
into a hole in the corn-shucks in shed,
where l remained that night and the next
day,
Then he took me to the cabin again in the
evening, gave me fishline and hook, rebel
cantecn, quite lot of matches, and filled
my haversack with food, sluDg that and the
canteen full of water over his shoulders and
we were ready to start
l bade his wife and children good-by, and
we started for the next station, II miles
uaay, on the road to Grahamville and Broad
River. We arrived at the station soon after
midnight. 1t was large plantation, and
as Charles, who was to be my next guide,
had not arrived, he left me in the care of the
women there were no men there, they being
with a rebel brigade camped at Graham
ville). l remained there that night. The
next evening Charles arrived in company
with another man, a slave. He had to shake
HIM off before he could come TO me-
While stopping here the 'mammies !"
killed chicken and fed me on chicken soup, etc,
and made the little woollyheads stand picket
and watch the roads in every direction, and
Oh the least alarm they would report to their
:. nlammics," when they would hustle me into
the o:her room, where l would lie down on
the fDor and they would throw feather bed
over me. AMI nearly smother me, in their
anxiety for my welfare.
When leaving, they gave me tinder-horn,
flint and steel, and showed me how to stri Ike
light with them, also piece of white cot
ton cloth that | wanted for signal, and
filed my haversack with rations. Charles
siung that and the canteen over his shoulder,
and we took the road to Grlllamrille.
Charles told me TO wall, on one side of he
road and he wOuld 90 on the other and VIII en-
we met the patrol to give them the militia ry
salute and pay no more attention to the N;
that they would think that l was Con-
iederate officer on my way to camp, and
that he was my servant.
We soon met mounted patrol. l felt
kind of queer, but did as he directed and
passed on, the patrol paying no attention to
me except to return my salute. We met two
more before arriving at the picket-line. But
when near the picket-lne, Charles stepped
across The road to me, took me into the brush
to give me my instructions, as he would
have to report to his master in camp as soon