. The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings . imagined it contained some great military secrets. About the 9th of June, our cells were thrown open again, andwe were allowed to come out in the light; and then at oncetransferred to Capt
. The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings . imagined it contained some great military secrets. About the 9th of June, our cells were thrown open again, andwe were allowed to come out in the light; and then at oncetransferred to Captain Dearing, and a guard of twelve well armedmen, whose duty it was to escort us to Augusta. After intro-ducing himself and stating his business, the Captain informedus that the citizens were swearing that we should not be takenfrom Edgefield alive; but he said that he would take us, never-theless, at the risk of his life. You shall not be mobbed, said he, while you are under mycare. We were heavily ironed, and chained together, and then putin a wagon, which was driven rapidly aAvay from town before thecrowd of citizens could rally. It was forty miles to Augusta, and before we had got hardlyaway, our mule team broke down, and we had to walk severalmiles with our handcuffs and chains, a very fatiguing process ;but aside from this, our guard was kind, and supplied us withprovisions from their si/:/^^^«5 CHAPTER XXXIY. THE WHIPPING POST—TORTURING NEGROES—STARVING OUR PRISONERS—THECHARLESTON JAIL OUR OFFICERS VINDICATED. At Augusta we were put in close confinement again, underthe tender auspices of a man named Bridges—a New YorkYankee. He certainly can boast, hereafter, of one thing: thediscovery of the smallest amount of food which is required tosupport human life. We were in the jail at Augusta -57 days,and at the end of that time, were so starved as to be mereshadows of what we were. I could no longer walk steadily, andfelt as weak as when just beginning to wa
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