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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting narrative of an escaped Confederate prisoner. (search)
ndusky, thence to Toledo, from there to Detroit, and getting on board a ferry boat was landed upon the Canadian side, at a place called Windsor, Upper Canada. There he met the Honorable Mr. Elliott, Queen's Consul, who invited him to his place at London. He was hospitably and kindly received by the citizens of that place, and a contribution made up for him. He was also given free trans port, or right of way, on the Grand Trunk Railway to Quebec, with a letter of introduction to the Hon. Mr. Portman, M. P., an intimate friend of General Wade Hampton. Mr. P. and his friends here made up another contribution, by which means he was enabled to reach St. Johns, N. B., from whence he embarked on board the schooner Blanche, on the 7th of June, and arrived at Nassau on the 24th. Mr. Bramlet is now in this city. He says he found the people of Canada, much to his astonishment, almost a unit in favor of the South. He had been led to believe that the Canadians were all abolitionists, wher