. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. white man here in South quote again from diary. Came to high road; guide-board on high post. Wanted to know where we were, , and where we were going; too high to be read. * K proposed to climb it and read. Good! I boosted him thus (see cut opposite). When up, K lighted a match and read as follows: Mount Welling, — miles; Charles-ton, — miles; Columbia, — miles; Hamburg, via Bidge-house Road, 42 miles. That experiment pa
. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. white man here in South quote again from diary. Came to high road; guide-board on high post. Wanted to know where we were, , and where we were going; too high to be read. * K proposed to climb it and read. Good! I boosted him thus (see cut opposite). When up, K lighted a match and read as follows: Mount Welling, — miles; Charles-ton, — miles; Columbia, — miles; Hamburg, via Bidge-house Road, 42 miles. That experiment paid, for wehad hitherto been ignorant of our whereabouts, and ofour place of destiny. Christened it The Pursuit ofKnowledge under Difficulties. Proposed a cut for A s Illustrated Prison Life. After traveling fifteen or twenty miles this night, wesought shelter by the side of an old log in the densestpart of the woods, where we spent the day as on formeroccasions. • Here a little incident worthy of note occurred. Latein the afternoon we became very hungry, and I determ-ined to creep forth in search of food. I had selected my SKETCHES OF PRISON LIFE. 271. The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties. direction, and was about starting, when I heard the reportof a gun but a short distance from us, and in the exactdirection I had selected. I concluded not to go. In asimilar manner, on another occasion, I was saved by thebarking of a dog. After the stars had made their appearance, and whilethe new moon hung like a silver horn in the west, wecrept quietly forth on this, the fifth night of our travel,and resumed our wearisome march. It is remarkable how much a person will fall in lovewith Nature and familiar objects when thus shut out of 272 SKETCHES OF PRISON LIFE. all human society. We would have considered it a greatcalamity indeed had we been deprived the privilege oflooking at the stars; and when the new moon made itsappearance we hailed it with rapturous joy. It seemedthat
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