. As seen from the ranks; a boy in the civil war . or it to carryus down; and as we waited darkness settledaround and enclosed us. We shoved welltowards the south shore, and drifting fasterand faster finally came in sight of the armycamp-fires. Just above our own camp wasa point of land projecting into the river, andupon this landmark we depended to findour way, but as we swung round it thecurrent carried us far out into the channel,and we could not touch bottom with thepoles. Here was a predicament, for our unman-ageable craft was sweeping us towards theConfederate lines, which were but a sho
. As seen from the ranks; a boy in the civil war . or it to carryus down; and as we waited darkness settledaround and enclosed us. We shoved welltowards the south shore, and drifting fasterand faster finally came in sight of the armycamp-fires. Just above our own camp wasa point of land projecting into the river, andupon this landmark we depended to findour way, but as we swung round it thecurrent carried us far out into the channel,and we could not touch bottom with thepoles. Here was a predicament, for our unman-ageable craft was sweeping us towards theConfederate lines, which were but a shortdistance below, with the now rapid splashed and paddled furiously with ourpoles, and just as we were preparing toabandon the raft and swim for safety, thepoles again touched bottom, and we soon END OF THE MARCH 247 pushed to the shore and along in the eddiesup to our camp. We found the rest of our party enjoying acomfortable smoke after supper, and it is justpossible that we reverted a little to the Saxonin explaining our CHAPTER XXIII CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH AND INVASION OFSOUTH CAROLINA Army Suffering with Hunger—Enemys Prudent Re-treat—Unparalleled Campaign—^Journalistic En-terprise—Crossing the Savannah into South Caro-lina—Cold Weather Again—Skilful Manoeuvring—General Kilpatricks Adventure. WITH the limiber secured we proceededto the building of the winter quarters,but as it happened we did not enjoy themlong. In a few days Fort McAllister, on theOgeechee River, was captured, and thisopened mail communication, but did notsuffice for a cracker line. During the lasttwo weeks of our march the country hadgrown poorer in the matter of supplies, foras the swamps had grown broader the arableland had decreased. As soon as we halted in front of the city food disappeared from the248 CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH 249 surrounding country in a twinkling. A littleadditional was obtained from the rice planta-tions on the river, but that also soon van-ished, and
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