18

CHAPTER III. On the March 27

CHAPTER IV. Bright Spots 39

CHAPTER V. The Stockade 44

CHAPTER VI. Incidents 53

CHAPTER VII. Events 61

CHAPTER VIII. An Escape 69

CHAPTER IX. On the Tramp 77

CHAPTER X. Recaptured 85

CHAPTER XI. The Back Track 93

CHAPTER XII. The Return to the Stockade 103

CHAPTER XIII. Incidents, and Another Escape 109

CHAPTER XIV. Tramps Once More 120

CHAPTER XV. Diplomacy 129

CHAPTER XVI. Making Progress 139

CHAPTER XVII. A Puzzle, and Incidents 148

CHAPTER XVIII. Experiences 158

CHAPTER XIX. Good Luck and Bad 169

CHAPTER XX. In the Toils 177

CHAPTER XXI. Another Return Trip 186

CHAPTER XXII. Foraging, and a New Prison 196

CHAPTER XXIII. To Camp Ford and Joy 207

CHAPTER XXIV. Liberty at Last 219

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Captain S. A. Swiggett, Frontispiece.

General F. M. Drake, 18

Lieutenant Walter S. Johnson, 39

Adjutant S. K. Mahon, 69

Captain J. B. Gedney, 79

Captain Thomas M. Fee, 89

Captain Charles Burnbaum, 94

Captain J. P. Rummel, 115

Captain B. F. Miller, 167

Sergeant E. B. Rocket, 189

The Bright Side of Prison Life.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARIES.

My first appearance in the United States was made on the 19th of May,
A. D. 1834. I have no recollection of this important event, but am
reliably informed that the given date is correct, and that Dorchester
county, Maryland, was the locality. At that time I had no premonition of
my future life in a rebel prison, and if anyone had told me of the
fourteen month