All this was effected so noiselessly that we were all out without creating any alarm.
We could hear the measured tramp of the sentinel, as he paced up and down in front of the empty prison.

We pictured to ourselves his surprise when he discovered, the next morning, that we escaped under his nose without his knowing it! "I need not dwell upon the next twenty-four hours.

The utmost vigilance was required to elude the rebel pickets.

At last, after nearly twenty hours, during which we had nothing to eat, we walked into camp, exhausted with hunger and fatigue, to the great joy of our comrades from whom we had been absent a fortnight.
"On receiving information of the manner in which we had been captured, our commanding officer at once despatched me with a detachment of men to arrest Mrs.Roberts and her daughter.

Her surprise and dismay at seeing me whom she supposed safe in Richmond were intense.