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CHAPTER XVI--Page 162. Back into Walhalla--We Run into a Rebel Picket in the Dark and are Taken in--A Little Judicious Lieing Secures Our Release--Overtaking Some Wagons Going from Market--Chatting with a Company of Rebel Cavalry. CHAPTER XVII--Page 173. At Major Carters--My Swollen Limbs Give Me an Excuse to Cut Off the Conversation--Rev. Mr. Burch Gives Us a Hearty Welcome and a Good Breakfast--Passing a Confederate Soldier--Recaptured--Eccentric but Loyal Tom Hubbard--Taken Back to Fort Emory. CHAPTER XVIII--Page 180. In Prison Again. CHAPTER XIX--Page 187. A Hospitable Host--Franklin Jail--Charitable Women--A Thoughtful, Motherly Gift--A Generous Guard--Ashville Jail--Attempt to Break Out. CHAPTER XX--Page 195. Another Attempt at Escape Discovered--A Bold Plot--Lack of Sand in the Reb Deserters--A Brave Negro--The Flogging. CHAPTER XXI--Page 201. Placed in an Iron Cage--Breaking Out and Attempting to Dig Through a Brick Wall--An Unexpected Surprise. CHAPTER XXII--Page 209. Danville Prison--A Cold Winter--Double-Quicking Around the Room to Keep Warm--Excitement Caused by the Arrival of Fresh Troops--They Stack Arms in Front of Our Prison--Plans for Escape. CHAPTER XXIII--Page 216. Prison Rules--Starving in the Midst of Plenty--Organizing for a Break-- Trading With the Guard--Business in Prison. CHAPTER XXIV--Page 222. Organization for a Break Completed--The Attempted Break--The Guard Disarmed--Too Late, Go Back--Colonel Raulston Shot. CHAPTER XXV--Page 232. Borrowing Seven Hundred Dollars of a Reb. CHAPTER XXVI--Page 243. CHAPTER XXVII--Page 249. CHAPTER XXVIII--Page 253. More about Charleston--Exchange on the Brain--More about Macon--Charleston Jail Yard More Fully Described--The Old Privy--The Gallows or Gibbet-- Terrible Suffering for Want of Food and Shelter--A Fire and How Gillmore Helped it Along--Death of Lieutenant Mosher, 12th N. Y. Cavalry. CHAPTER XXIX--Page 263. Exchange on the Brain. CHAPTER XXX--Page 273. Scouting in North Carolina--Sergeant C---- in a Well--The Accident Prevents a Fight with our own Troops--A Fight with North Carolina Troops--Mrs. Modlin Turns a Back Somersault--Our Irish Lieutenant. APPENDIX--Page 287. LIST OF OFFICERS CONFINED IN MACON, GA--Page 295. ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. The Cavalry Sent to Capture a Boat's Cr
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