The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . s that I had taken, and wasfearful that someone might purloin it. so started to had not gone far when I thought I would step intothe road, which I could see to my right, although it wasquite dark. I had forgotten that the road had been cutthrough an embankment and was at least five feet belowthe path I stepped from. I fell, and lit on my rightshoulder in the road. Lying stunned for a moment ortwo, I arose and proceeded to the boat, which had tied upat the wharf. I reached Fredericksburg
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . s that I had taken, and wasfearful that someone might purloin it. so started to had not gone far when I thought I would step intothe road, which I could see to my right, although it wasquite dark. I had forgotten that the road had been cutthrough an embankment and was at least five feet belowthe path I stepped from. I fell, and lit on my rightshoulder in the road. Lying stunned for a moment ortwo, I arose and proceeded to the boat, which had tied upat the wharf. I reached Fredericksburg a little aftermidnight, remained there until morning, and took theearly train for Washington, where I arrived at a quarterof nine oclock. I did not recover from my fall for four NARRATIVE OF A WALK. 305 weeks, and a part of the time I suffered great from this accident there was no occurrence to marmy tramp of eighty miles. I shall ever have pleasant recollections of the kind hos-pitality that I received from the people along the is only characteristic of the Southern yi.^M3. OS^. o^ySo
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