id try again he got over on the
Northern side. They almost caught him again, but as the Lord was his
leader at night, he made his escape, and to hear him tell of that river
that he crossed and how he walked on the water and he was so scared that
he did not know he got wet; but I know that he did get wet, though. He
said the Lord carried him over the river without letting him get wet. I
am sure that I could not help laughing at my brother to hear of such a
thing, for there never was a time that I have read of since the time of
Peter that any one was called to walk on the water. The Lord was there
Himself to show Peter how small his strength was when he trusted in his
own strength, and Peter would have failed entirely if his Lord and
Master had not been there.

And so it would have been with my dear brother. He would have been taken
by the Southerners, and that would have been his last trial on this side
of the grave.

My sister Frances was hired out and we did not see her from one
Christmas to the other, for she was a good way off where she could not
get home. She was treated very badly by some of those where she lived
and her limbs had been sprained so that she could hardly move on them.
When later on the Lord had it so arranged that she was taken home to
live, where she could be cared for, she soon got better and was able to
go about helping mother, with the rest of the children, for my brother
who had to help her to care for the children was gone, and she was all
the help that my mother had, for I was not large enough to do much and
had not been put to mind the children.

The gentleman that my dear brother belonged to was a Methodist and a
minister. He did not want to go to the war and so he sent my poor
brother to defend what belonged to him, and he did not get the good of
it after all, for my brother was determined that he would gain his
freedom if he could and he tried and did not get tired of trying.

Then my sister Annie was given to the gentleman's married son and she
was not with us, and sister Tempy Green was with the minister, and she
was one of the dead ones that mother had a time to get. Maggie, Susie,
Martha and Mary were at the same place where mother was sold from, and
she went and got them at once. It was like a dream to them to see how
far she had been sold and to see her back there again.

Sister Lavinia was at the same place where I was and she was treated
very badly by the man's own daughter, f