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The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting Narrative of the Escape of Hurlbut from Richmond. (search)
We lay upon the cliffs, watching the sails upon the river, and the far gleam of the National flag as it waved in the light breeze upon the passing vessels, and the distant Maryland short. With the nightfall, we resumed our attempt to cross; and, after an exciting row of nearly three hours, the sea running quite high, slipped past the blockading line of National vessels, plainly discernible to the number of six at different points along the Maryland shore, and drew in under the shadow of Swan's Point. From this point the boatmen rowed us through devious waterways, known to themselves better than, I fear, they are to our blockading vessels, into the Wicomico river — upon the banks of which they landed us, forty-eight miles from Washington, on the morning of Monday, August 18--From this point to within ten miles of the Capital we made our way on foot, the thoroughly Southern temper of the country being sufficiently manifest in the fact that, while we met numbers of vehicles tending tow