. The Norwich memorial; the annals of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, in the great rebellion of 1861-65 . angle wilh the Railroad. Our cramped prison life for twenty months previous, and thefood we had received, had not particularly fitted us for such workas this, but we were on the road to freedom. Pluck and nervekept us going, and we got over the ground in a style that did usall credit under the circumstances. After repeated attempts, wegot a fire started, and bringing forth our corn bread and hardtack, we all sat around the fire and warmed ourselves and ate ourbreakfast as free men
. The Norwich memorial; the annals of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, in the great rebellion of 1861-65 . angle wilh the Railroad. Our cramped prison life for twenty months previous, and thefood we had received, had not particularly fitted us for such workas this, but we were on the road to freedom. Pluck and nervekept us going, and we got over the ground in a style that did usall credit under the circumstances. After repeated attempts, wegot a fire started, and bringing forth our corn bread and hardtack, we all sat around the fire and warmed ourselves and ate ourbreakfast as free men once more. We then went as far into the forest as we could, and stillkeep the fire in view, where we waited for something to turn remained here, I suppose, about two hours, all too thoroughlydrenched and too excited by our novel position to sleep, when toour great joy we saw our picket approaching the fire, accompa-nied by a negro. He listened very quietly to all we said, andthen assured us in the first place that we ran no risk in stayingnear our fire, as there would probably be no white persons along.
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