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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
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d by his fellow-prisoners, who succeeded in con-vincing the sergeant that all were present. The modewas this: Glazier found out the absent mans name, andthen volunteered to,call the roll from a list in the ser-geants possession. It being dark, a piece of pitch-pinewas lighted, and the list handed to Glazier, who pro-ceeded to call the names. All answered, except theabsentee, when, according to previous arrangement,each affirmed that no such man had been among them.The sergeant sapiently concluded that the name hadfound its way upon the roster by some error, andnothing further was said about it. Had this little rusenot been resorted to, great efforts would have beenmade to recover the fugitive. Picked men would havebeen detailed, hounds called out from the nearest plan-tation, and a very short time would have convincedthe unfortunate victim how little hope there was forhim who sought to shun the horrors of prison-life byan escape. w MH a > M W og GO 3 QWO w Qi—i >I d i—i 3 £
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jPUBUCUBMKfj SYLVANIA, GEORGIA. 277 We do not propose entering into any detail of thismarch into captivity, more especially as our hero hashimself fully and graphically described it in his Cap-ture, Prison-Pen and Escape, compiled from a diarykept during the whole period of his adventurous career,and published in 1865. We will merely state herethat on Monday, December nineteenth, 1864, after adreary march of twenty-five miles, the captives foundthemselves encamped for the night at the little vil-lage of Sylvania, Georgia; half-way between the pointof their departure and that of their destination,Waynesboro. Glaziers mind, during the whole of the day, hadbeen preoccupied with but one subject—how to escape !—this problem excluding every other thought or con-sideration of himself or his surroundings. Early in the evening the prisoners were stationed onthe porch of a large unoccupied building, and here itwas determined they should pass the night. The vil-lagers of Sylvania knew little

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