...tormy night, on a fleet horse to an unguarded point on the Potomac—the perilous swim across—and so back to freedom, and Old Virginia—all this, as wild as any chapter in Stevenson or Dumas , must be told at another time and in another place. A comrade heard him recount the story soon after his return, and begged him to write it down then, and he half-promised to do so, but, as so ofte...