Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Major Rylander” in chapter 16 of John James Geer, Beyond the lines: A Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie:
...reast, to have me released from my miserable cell, though it were to take me to execution.
I committed it to the care of a negro, who was to convey it to the guard, who in turn was to present it to Major Rylander .
Whether the latter ever received it, I never knew, but certainly if he did, he never noticed it.
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