Capture and Escape

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John Azor Kellogg. Capture and Escape

Capture and Escape

Table of Contents

Illustration

Wisconsin History Commission

PREFACE

CAPTURE AND ESCAPE

The Iron Brigade in Camp

FOOTNOTES:

On the Skirmish Line

Captured

En Route to Lynchburg

Arrival at Lynchburg

Treatment at Lynchburg

At Danville

Removed to Macon

The Prison Pen

Tunneling

Betrayed

Prison Life

FOOTNOTE:

Removed to Charleston

Escape from the Train

Prisoners Again

Confined at Charleston

Another Tunnel

In the Line of Union Fire

Daily Experiences

A Second Escape

Fugitives

Two of Us Missing

A Friend in the Dark

Novel Foot-gear

Interrupting a Revival

Negro Sympathizers

Hunted with Hounds

Friendly Blacks

Difficulties, Day by Day

A Cautious Picket

The Home Guard

Among the Georgia Unionists

A Mountain Wedding

Diplomacy

A Start for Our Lines

Among Comrades

The Mystery Solved

Again in the Field

A Belated Report

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John Azor Kellogg

A Narrative of Army and Prison Life

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Upon reporting to General Cutler, I found him pacing up and down before his quarters, evidently laboring under some excitement. I had at one time served on his staff, and we were familiarly acquainted. He invited me into his tent, and extending his hand said: "Captain, your work this morning will not be play. Out in front—I do not know exactly how far, but probably within a mile—you will find the sharp-shooters deployed as skirmishers. You will join them. Use your own company as you think best; take command of the line, and advance until you raise the enemy and bring on an engagement."

Just as I was leaving him, he added, "Take along plenty of orderlies, and report frequently."

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