. Daring and suffering: a history of the great railroad adventure . ngedhim to us, and got a souml man in his place ! When the boat rounded out from the shoreon its homeward way. our joy knew no seemed as if we had awakened from a hideousnightmare dream to find that all its shapesof horror and grinning fiends had passed away,and left us standing in the free sunlight oncemore. Our hearts beat glad music to the threshof the wheels on the water, knowing that eachponderous stroke was placing a greater distancebetween us an I our hated enemies. Then, too, the happy welcome with which wewe
. Daring and suffering: a history of the great railroad adventure . ngedhim to us, and got a souml man in his place ! When the boat rounded out from the shoreon its homeward way. our joy knew no seemed as if we had awakened from a hideousnightmare dream to find that all its shapesof horror and grinning fiends had passed away,and left us standing in the free sunlight oncemore. Our hearts beat glad music to the threshof the wheels on the water, knowing that eachponderous stroke was placing a greater distancebetween us an I our hated enemies. Then, too, the happy welcome with which wewere greeted; and the gocxl cheer, so differentfrom our miserable prison fare, and the kindfaces, smiling all around, showed in living colorsthat we were freemen again. Down the river we went, passing the historicground of the James, as in a delirious dream ofrapture ! We were scarcely conscious of passingevents. No emotion on earth has the samesweep and intensity as the wild, throbbing sen-sations that rush thick and fast through thebosom of the liberated captive!. Reverkk op Mepal. On we went—reachedthe gunboats that ply upand down the river, likegiant sentinels,guardingthe avenue to rebellion—reached the riversmouth, passed onwardup the bay to AVashing-ton I As we came insight, we thronged tu-multuously to the ves-sels side, and bent eager,loving eyes on the snowymarble front, and whitetowering steeple of ournations Capitol. On our arrival, wewere requested by theSecretary of War togive our depositions be- r fore Hon. Joseph Holt, mi p / Judffe Advocate Gene- llieLoDQress ( ^ ^, . ^ ^ ^ j^% \ ral, that the world at \vjnjAMpnTn\GE^-\ ^^^s^ misfht know on o the surest foundationthe truth of our nar-rative. AVe were re-ceived by the Judge himself, and Major-Gene-
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