Identifier: swordpenorventura00owen (find matches)
Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon
Subjects: Glazier, Willard, 1841-1905 Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gfreedom. All such hopes, however, were doomed to disap-pointment. The object of the expedition, which was acombined movement from different points by GeneralKilpatrick and Colonel Dahlgren, was defeated in con-sequence of the treachery of a negro guide, employedby the latter officer, and one of the effects of this manstreason was the death of that gallant young soldier.The only result that followed to the prisoners was thatthe rebels became more exasperated than ever, andunfortunately for their reputation, they seem, withregard to the treatment of the few prisoners that fellinto their hands on this occasion, to have behavedrather like savage than civilized people. Not satisfiedwith the perpetration of acts of cruelty upon theseparticular prisoners, they (according to Captain Gla-ziers information) undermined the prison building,and stored beneath the foundation a sufficient quantityof powder to blow it into fragments. This proceedinghe says they called, with more force than elegance,
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THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR. THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR. 193 ^ preparing the Yankees for hell; and Major Turnervery grimly informed them that if any further attemptat escape were made, or efforts for their rescue, theprison would be blown to atoms! It is not surprisingthat at such a time, and under the circumstances, theprisoners looked upon this threat as meant in soberreality; but in all probability (or at least let us hope),it was used simply as a means of discouraging attemptsupon the part of the incarcerated men, to regain theirliberty by their own eflPorts or that of their»friends. The raiders captured in the expedition under Kil-patrick and Dahlgren had been thrust into a celldirectly beneath the room in which Glazier was con-fined. Contrivances were made to open communica-tion with them for the purpose, if possible, of allevia-ting their sufferings, as it was well known that foodwas issued to them in very niggardly quantities, andevery indignity the rebels could devise inflicted uporfth

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