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Title: Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Drake, J. Madison (James Madison), 1837-1913
Subjects: New Jersey Infantry. 9th Regt United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
Publisher: New York, The Authors' publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t of the bravedefenders of the Tyrol, of the hardy Waldenses,fighting and dying among the hills for dear Libertyssake. Although but poorly armed, with old-fash-ioned heavy rifles and ,old horse pistols and squirrelguns as their only weapons of defence, they hadoften defeated and kept at bay the forces sentagainst them. Many of these ** lyers-out, beforethe war, were in comfortable circumstances, possess-ing pleasant and profitable farms, but the rebellionand its dreadful consequences had reduced them totheir present wretched condition, many of thembeing utterly penniless. Thousands of these poormen, I was assured, had been compelled to abandoneverything, their wives and children, as well as prop-erty, because of their devotion to the Government,under which they had been blessed with unexam-pled prosperity. While these brave men were thusexiled, their courageous, true-hearted wives per-formed every drudgery, working the land, and often,under the darkness of night, carrying food surrep-
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A WELCOME GUEST. l8l titiously to their loved ones hiding in the clefts ofthe mountains. With daylight also came a cold rain-storm,which admonished us to hasten on, eating as weproceeded. Not a word was uttered, silence andcaution being essential to the success of our under-taking. Noontime found us flanking the settlementat Wilson Creek, all thoroughly soaked and sufferinggreatly from the cold and piercing winds. Observ-ing an untenanted house in an open field we tookpossession, and a few minutes afterwards a blazingfire conduced to our comfort, enabling us to warmour shivering bodies and dry our apparel, togetherwith the blankets our friends had wisely broughtwith them. It rained incessantly day and night,flooding the valley, and rendering a resumption ofour journey very difficult, if not impossible for atime. CHAPTER XXVIII. A WELCOME GUEST. ABOUT the middle of the afternoon we werethrown into one of those alarms which had nowbecome periodical. On the summit of a bold moun-tain in

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