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Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis, the Great Union Guide of East Tennessee, During the Rebellion
Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis the Great Union Guide of East Tennessee During the Rebellion Author:Daniel Ellis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. I Now at once concluded that I would be compelled to seek for safety in the mountains, to avoid being recaptured by the desperate villains who were seeking to take my life. Where my comrades were I could not tell, but I determined to go in search of them. However, I was totally unable to commence an immediate search for them, for the terrible race which I had been compelled to take to save my life had so completely stiffened my limbs that I was almost incapable of standing erect. I laid out all the night which followed the day of my escape without any covering whatever, save the blue and star-lit canopy of the sky. The night was very cold, and consequently sleep, the balmy restorer of exhausted nature, did not often visit me upon my cold and lonely bed. As this was my first experience in scouting, the reader may correctly suppose that the night seemed very tedious. At times, as I lay upon my cold bed, and gazed up through the blue ethereal at the bright and beautiful stars as they twinkled in the celestial firmament on high, I thought that my condition was melancholy indeed; but I found some consolation in-the reflection that I was not the first man who had been forced to the necessity of laying all night with the cold earth for his bed and the heavens for his covering. I could but remember that I was only enduring what Crassus once endured, who was considered to be the most affluent personage in the whole Roman Empire. History informs us that Crassus, not being contented with his boundless wealth, nor the exalted political distinction which it had procuredfor him in the Roman government, ...« less