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Title: Famous adventures and prison escapes of the civil war
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 Pittenger, William, 1840-1904 Richards, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards), 1844-1920 Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916 Willcox, Orlando B Hines, Thomas Henry Moran, Frank E Shelton, W. H. (William Henry), 1840-1932? Wood, John Taylor
Subjects: Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 Libby Prison Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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sant, near Fort Moultrie, and taken thence in asail-boat across the harbor to Charleston. At night Ifound myself again in the city jail, where with a largeparty of officers I had spent most of the month of Au-gust. My cell-mate was Lieutenant H. G. Dorr of the4th Massachusetts Cavalry, with whom I journeyed byrail back to Columbia, arriving at Camp Sorghumabout the 1st of November. I rejoined the mess of Lieutenant Byers, and intro-duced to the others Lieutenant Dorr, whose cool as-surance was a prize that procured us all the blessingspossible. He could borrow frying-pans from theguards, money from his brother Masons at headquar-ters, and I believe if we had asked him to secure us agun he would have charmed it out of the hand ofa sentinel on duty. Lieutenant Edward E. Sill, of General Daniel But-terfields staff, whom I had met at Macon, during myabsence had come to Sorghum from a fruitless tripto Macon for exchange, and I had promised to join him A HABD EOAD TO TRAVEL OUT OF DIXIE 255
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LIEUTENANTS E. E. SILL AND A. T. LAM80N. 256 ADVENTUEES AND ESCAPES IN THE CIVIL WAK in an attempt to escape when he could secure a pair ofshoes. On November 29 our mess had felled a bigpine-tree and had rolled into camp a short section ofthe trunk, which a Tennessee officer was to split intoshingles to complete our hut, a pretty good cabin withan earthen fireplace. While we were resting from ourexertion, Sill appeared with his friend Lieutenant A. T.Lamson of the 104th New York Infantry, and remindedme of my promise. The prisoners always respectedtheir parole on wood-chopping expeditions, and wentout and came in at the main entrance. The guardswere a particularly verdant body of back-countrymilitia, and the confusion of the parole system enabledus to practise ruses. In our present difficulty we re-sorted to a new expedient and forged a parole. Thenext day all three of us were quietly walking down theguard-line on the outside. At the creek, where all thecamp came for water, we found D

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