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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting narrative of an escaped Confederate prisoner. (search)
Interesting narrative of an escaped Confederate prisoner.
Wm. C. Bramlet, of the 8th Virginia cavalry, was captured in November last and carried to Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio.
He escaped and arrived in Charleston, S. C., a few days ago. The narrative of his escape and adventures as communicated to the Charleston Courier, are very interesting:
He was kept in close confinement until March, a period of five months. On the 12th of March some laborers being sent into the prison to ditch the prison grounds, Mr. Bramlet entered into conversation with them, and finding them Southern men in principle, informed them that he meditated an escape.
They at once expressed their sympathies with his condition, and offered to assist him as far as lay in their power.
He suggested as the most feasible plan a change of clothing in his barracks, substituting a laborer's suit for the uniform he then were.
The laborer's suit was procured, the change made, and being furnished with a spade,
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Speech of the Governor-General of Canada . (search)