THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
rainy the guards did not see it as they passed.
Now that we were in the swamp, free from the prison, the problem presented itself, how to get a boat to leave the island. Then came the question, who should go forward and overpower the sentinel over the boats at the wharf, where they were kept moored, constantly guarded. Lieutenant Chew suggested that we draw cattails. This was adopted. Chew held the cuts, and the choice fell on Gillispie. He at once objected to going, on the ground that a smaller man could get through the swamp better than he. Not having time to discuss the philosophy of his objection, Prewitt said, "Come on, Murray, you and I will go ahead." Off we started, Prewitt in the lead, I next and Captain Kent, of Georgia, close behind me, with Captain Griffin, Chew, and others following in our wake, some fifty feet behind, so as not to attract the sentinel. We came in sight of the wharf; against the horizon
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