. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . Richmond with a strong the way the sergeant in charge got a chance to indulge in liquor, apractice to which he was addicted, and became so careless that while Charliewas not able to escape on account of the men who were not drunk, bywatching his opportunity he managed to slip from the breast pocket ofthe sergeant the packet of papers containing the charges against him, withdirections for his disposal, and dropped them into a pond over which theroad ran. Last Experiences in Rebel Prisons. 391 Great
. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . Richmond with a strong the way the sergeant in charge got a chance to indulge in liquor, apractice to which he was addicted, and became so careless that while Charliewas not able to escape on account of the men who were not drunk, bywatching his opportunity he managed to slip from the breast pocket ofthe sergeant the packet of papers containing the charges against him, withdirections for his disposal, and dropped them into a pond over which theroad ran. Last Experiences in Rebel Prisons. 391 Great was the perplexity of the sergeant on arriving at Richmond tofind his papers gone. He could only report that he was to bring theprisoner, who was a bad customer, to Richmond, and that he had lost hispapers on the way. The authorities arrested him for neglect of duty, andput Charlie in the room with us, sending back to the sergeants regimentfor information. It was only a day or two till the evidence arrived, andthe commanding officer promptly entered our room with a guard and called. Taking a Dead Mans Name. in a decided manner for Charles Marsh. The latter well understood whatthis meant and made good use of his last chance for life. It so happenedthat a man had expired in the night—an occurrence not at all uncommon—and Marsh at once answered in a careless tone O, that fellow died last night, and pointed to the corpse. The purpose was instantly reccgnized by all in the prison who kneweither of the two men, and no one wished to interfere. The officer wasthrown completely off his guard. 392 Daring and Suffering. • Died has he ! the rascal ! Wed a hung him this week, and saved himthe trouble, growled the baffled magnate, and took his departure It is needless to say that Charlie took care that when the morningreport was made out Charles Marsh, died was duly entered, or thathe continued to answer to the dead mans name. He was finally exchangedunder the name which he had thus f
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