Terrors and horrors of prison life; or, Six months a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio . ho hearing footsteps hurried up the steps and therehe met the escaping prisoner. The guard thinking hewas an officer of the guard saluted and was salutedin return. The Confederate passed on down the steps, thefriend sometime afterward told how it was all done andsaying that his friend the Confederate who escapedsaid that he would go near the guard at the big gate atthe turnpike lie in wait until the relief guard camewhich was every half hour on nights that were real coldand then he would be near enough to hear
Terrors and horrors of prison life; or, Six months a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio . ho hearing footsteps hurried up the steps and therehe met the escaping prisoner. The guard thinking hewas an officer of the guard saluted and was salutedin return. The Confederate passed on down the steps, thefriend sometime afterward told how it was all done andsaying that his friend the Confederate who escapedsaid that he would go near the guard at the big gate atthe turnpike lie in wait until the relief guard camewhich was every half hour on nights that were real coldand then he would be near enough to hear the coun-tersign given and by that means would get out a freeman which proved a success for it seems that he worethe Federal clothes most of the night for they werefound some distance from Camp Chase where he haddiscarded them. The friend getting letters from himafterward. There was a little French-man who belonged to the13th La. Regt. soon after he was confined in prison hewrote to the French Minister at Washington claiminghe was a French subject and not a citizen of the United. Jonathan Smith. p^ B^HHH i^^-^ ? Mmi^^^^BB^^^^^^^^^BB p:f^ :9li^ ^n^^^H p*^^ ^K ^^^^^^^^1 *|/r ; K. V^^H P ^ - ^\ jf^^H 51 ? illB^% m^lH ?/ ~.^E^ il^l^H t* ^^^. \^wH^^H yf\f j^^^^^y ^ j^^^^^jH^^^^^H i - wK^^^<^.^ -^^^^^^^^ftiliBI^^B i Efl Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart, whowith three brigades defeatedHookers Corps of three divisionsat New Hope Church, on May28th 1864. 17 States and while he was on a visit to some friends whowere in the Confederate army at Atlanta was taken aprisoner and that he asked to be liberated and be allowedto return to New Orleans and his plea was respectedand he was liberated and furnished transportation toNew Orleans where he wrote from, soon afterwardsAs to wood, at tirst when the cold weather set in wethoug;ht that like our food it would be scarce, so weused It very sparing-ly hidin^o- it under the low^er bunksuntil we had a g:ood supply on hand. One day Sero-eantJake
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