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CHAPTER XV.

THE CAPTURE.

A situation to try the stoutest hearts.--Hail Columbia!--Every man a
hero.--Kilpatrick's ingenuity.--A pen-picture from "Soldiers of the
Saddle."--Glazier thanked by his general.--Cessation of
hostilities.--A black day.--Fitzhugh Lee proposes to crush
Kilpatrick.--Kil's audacity.--Capture of Lieutenant Glazier.--Petty
tyranny.--"Here, Yank, hand me that thar hat, and overcoat, and
boots" 155

CHAPTER XVI.

LIBBY PRISON.

"All ye who enter here abandon hope."--Auld lang syne.--Major
Turner.--Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.--Stoicism.--Glazier
enters the prison-hospital--A charnel-house.--Rebel surgeons.--
Prison correspondence.--Specimen of a regulation letter.--The
tailor's joke.--A Roland for an Oliver.--News of death.--Schemes
for escape.--The freemasonry of misfortune.--Plot and
counter-plot.--The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties 166

CHAPTER XVII.

PRISON LIFE.

Mournful news.--How a brave man dies.--New Year's day.--Jolly under
unfavorable circumstances.--Major Turner pays his respects.--
Punishment for singing "villainous Yankee songs."--Confederate
General John Morgan.--Plans for escape.--Digging their way to
freedom.--"Poet No. 1, All's well."--Yankee ingenuity.--The tunnel
ready.--Muscle the trump card.--No respect to rank.--_Sauve qui
peut!_--A strategic movement.--"Guards! guards!"--Absentees from
muster.--Disappointed hopes.--Savage treatment of prisoners.--Was
the prison mined? 179

CHAPTER XVIII.

DANVILLE.--MACON.--SAVANNAH.

Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy.--National characteristics.--Colonel
Mosby.--Richmond to Danville.--Sleeping spoon-fashion.--Glazier's
"corrective point" suffers.--Saltatory entrance to a railroad
car.--Colonel Joselyn.--Sympathy of North Carolinians.--Ingenious
efforts to escape.--Augusta.--Macon.--Turner again!--"Carelessness"
with firearms.--Tunneling.--Religious revival.--Order from
Confederate War Department.--Murder!--Fourth of July.--Macon to
Savannah.--Camp Davidson.--More tunneling