the Tennessee river. His journey was a dangerous one, for the people
of Illinois where then highly elated at the successes which had
attended the Yankee arms, and the few sympathisers that the South had
in their midst, were afraid to express their sympathies. He, luckily,
however, succeeded in finding out a worthy gentleman, who not only
befriended him, but furnished the necessary means for his journey, and
procured a passport for him to visit Nashville. Prepared for a
continuation of his travel, Harry, who had been staying at the
residence of his noble hearted host for three days, bade him adieu,
and started on his way to Nashville. On arriving at Frankfort,
Kentucky, he met with a man he had become acquainted with in
Mississippi, but who, on account of his strong Union proclivities, was
compelled to leave the South at the commencement of the war. This
creature immediately recognized Harry, and knowing that he had always
been an ardent Secessionist, conjectured that he was either a spy, or
an escaped prisoner. Harry was accordingly arrested and carried before
the military authorities, but his persistent denial of any knowledge
of the man who had caused his arrest, and the passport he had received
from the generous Illinoisan, induced the Yankee officer by whom he
was examined, to release him, and permit his departure for Nashville.

Harry had many hair breadth escapes from detection and capture, but
surmounting all the dangers which beset his path, he succeeded In
reaching the Confederate lines in safety, and immediately started for
Jackson. But one thing marred the joy he experienced at his daringly
won freedom, and that was his ignorance of Alfred's fate. Had not the
love of freedom been too strong in his breast, he would have returned
and endeavored to find his friend, but the success of his escape, and
the idea that Alfred may have pursued a different road, deterred him
from so doing. He determined, however, to make enquiry on his return