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Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ...
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
Subjects: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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I could answer her mutequestion, I said to Sambo, Call the dogs into thehouse/ This he did hastily. I then asked, Uncle,what road must this rebel take for Tinker Creek?(De right han one, out dar, I reckon/ he answered.Again bidding him keep the hounds in the house tilimorning, I rushed out to the road and joined my com-panion. We made lively tracks for about three miles,after which we took it more leisurely, stopping to restand refresh ourselves at every stream that crossed theroad. The winter was by this time fairly upon them, andsleeping in the open air by no means a pleasant expe-rience. They therefore made long marches, and bythe aid of an occasional friendly push from their negroallies at length arrived in the vicinity of Point Conufort. This was on the seventh of December, and thetwelfth day of their pilgrimage. After being some-what alarmed by the proximity of a pack of dogs, withwhich some boys were hunting, they escaped discovery, w GO o> f o wo GCGC w M GO Q WH
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( FUBIiCUBRAHVj s CROSSING THE SAVANNAH. 247 and securing another negro for a guide, they on thesame night found themselves upon the banks of theSavannah River. A colored mans cabin, as usual, sheltered them duringthe day, and their host and his dusky neighbors (manyof whom flocked around to see the Yankees, as wastheir custom) proving to be fishermen well acquaintedwith the rivor, our friends prevailed upon one of theirnumber to undertake tlu task of carrying them across.The first difficulty that presented itself was, where tofind a boat; but their host remembered, he said, aplace upon one of the tributaries of the Savannahwhere one lay, not exactly in ^ood sailing trim it istrue, for the authorities had ordered the destruction ofboats along all the streams where escaped prisonerswere likely to seek a passage, and this craft had notescaped their vigilance ; but he thought, by the liberaluse of pitch and cotton, materials easily obtainable inthat neighborhood, it could be made suffici

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