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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Attempted escape of Confederate officers from Fort Warren. (search)
ght days, almost starved, and without having lasted water for five days. The officers above mentioned got out of their room on the same night, as agreed. Major Sanders was the largest of the four who could be squeezed through with life left. To the others of their room-mates it was an absolute impossibility. They waited on f an old target, by which they reached the little island near.--They also, however, were obliged to give up the intention of returning to take off the others. Maj. Sanders and Lt. Read, meanwhile, endeavored to get off with planks and oil cans, which they had fastened together, but their means were insufficient. Near daylight ths have been divided by an iron bar, and a sentinel with a loaded gun walks under each one continually. The reference to the miscreant Harris, who betrayed Maj. Sanders, and was promoted for it, Dr. Freeman says he is universally despised even by the officers of the Yankee section themselves. They call him a double-edged trai