A situation to try the stoutest hearts.--Hail Columbia!--Every man a hero.--Kilpatrick's ingenuity.--A pen-picture from "Soldiers of the Saddle."--Glazier thanked by his general.--Cessation of hostilities.--A black day.--Fitzhugh Lee proposes to crush Kilpatrick.--Kil's audacity.--Capture of Lieutenant Glazier.--Petty tyranny.--"Here, Yank, hand me that thar hat, and overcoat, and boots" 155 CHAPTER XVI. LIBBY PRISON. "All ye who enter here abandon hope."--Auld lang syne.--Major Turner.--Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.--Stoicism.--Glazier enters the prison-hospital--A charnel-house.--Rebel surgeons.-- Prison correspondence.--Specimen of a regulation letter.--The tailor's joke.--A Roland for an Oliver.--News of death.--Schemes for escape.--The freemasonry of misfortune.--Plot and counter-plot.--The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties 166 CHAPTER XVII. PRISON LIFE. Mournful news.--How a brave man dies.--New Year's day.--Jolly under unfavorable circumstances.--Major Turner pays his respects.-- Punishment for singing "villainous Yankee songs."--Confederate General John Morgan.--Plans for escape.--Digging their way to freedom.--"Poet No. 1, All's well."--Yankee ingenuity.--The tunnel ready.--Muscle the trump card.--No respect to rank.--_Sauve qui peut!_--A strategic movement.--"Guards! guards!"--Absentees from muster.--Disappointed hopes.--Savage treatment of prisoners.--Was the prison mined? 179 CHAPTER XVIII. DANVILLE.--MACON.--SAVANNAH. Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy.--National characteristics.--Colonel Mosby.--Richmond to Danville.--Sleeping spoon-fashion.--Glazier's "corrective point" suffers.--Saltatory entrance to a railroad car.--Colonel Joselyn.--Sympathy of North Carolinians.--Ingenious efforts to escape.--Augusta.--Macon.--Turner again!--"Carelessness" with firearms.--Tunneling.--Religious revival.--Order from Confederate War Department.--Murder!--Fourth of July.--Macon to Savannah.--Camp Davidson.--More tunneling 194 CHAPTER XIX. UNDER FIRE AT CHARLESTON. Under siege.--Charleston Jail.--The Stars and Stripes.--Federal compliments.--Under the guns.--Roper Hospital.--Yellow Jack.--Sisters of Charity.--Rebel Christianity.--A Byronic stanza.--Charleston to Columbia.--"Camp Sorghum."--Nemesis.--Another dash for liberty.--Murder of Lieutenants Young and Parker.--Studying topography.--A vaticination.--Back to reality 206 CHAPTER XX. THE ESCAPE FROM COLUMBIA.