Table of Contents added by the transcriber:
| Introductory | 7 |
| War Memories | 9 |
| Appendix: How and Where I Was Captured | 58 |
| Addenda | 59 |
| List of Captured | 60 |
ESCAPE
FROM THE
CONFEDERACY
Overpowering the Guards—Midnight Leap From
a Moving Train—Through Swamps
and Forest—Blood Hounds—
Thrilling Events.
B. F. HASSON,
Late Lieut. Ringgold Battalion (22d. Pa. Vol. Cav.)
Entered according to Act of Congress.
Sept 26, 1900
To the comrades of the Ringgold Cavalry and therelatives and friends of the boys who sufferedand died at Richmond and Andersonville,this booklet is dedicated.
INTRODUCTORY.
I have been so often urged by old army comrades,as well as other friends, to publish the facts contained inthe following pages in a convenient shape for preservation,that I have concluded to comply with their wishes,and now present them in this form. Many of the lessimportant details have been omitted, as well with a viewof preventing the story from becoming tiresome as ofgetting it within the limits of space it was intended itshould occupy. While the experience was attendedwith trials and suffering, I wish to assure the readerthat it was nothing more than was endured by hundredsof other boys who saw service in the War of the GreatRebellion. I would not go through it again for all theworld, and yet I would not like to lose the satisfaction Ienjoy in the knowledge of my success in overcoming somany seemingly insurmountable difficulties. It is a plainnarration of facts, and is written without any effo