'Do you think I have been content?
No, sir.

Twice I attempted to escape.

Each time I was caught, dragged back, and cruelly whipped.

Then I was sold to the father of these little ones.

He treated me so well, and I was getting so old, that I gave up the idea of running away.' "'And where is he now ?' "'He became a colonel in the Confederate service, and was killed at Antietam.