All this was effected so noiselessly that we were all out without
creating any alarm. We could hear the measured tramp of the
sentinel, as he paced up and down in front of the empty prison.
We pictured to ourselves his surprise when he discovered, the
next morning, that we escaped under his nose without his knowing
it!
"I need not dwell upon the next twenty-four hours. The utmost
vigilance was required to elude the rebel pickets. At last, after
nearly twenty hours, during which we had nothing to eat, we
walked into camp, exhausted with hunger and fatigue, to the great
joy of our comrades from whom we had been absent a fortnight.
"On receiving information of the manner in which we had been
captured, our commanding officer at once despatched me with a
detachment of men to arrest Mrs. Roberts and her daughter. Her
surprise and dismay at seeing me whom she supposed safe in
Richmond were intense. She is still under arrest.
"I suppose our campaign will open as soon as the roads are dried
up.
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