[The following takes place during the American Civil War, from the Confederate perspective.]
At Selma, they were loaded onto a passenger steamship en route to Montgomery. One night a man slipped overboard in his sleep and had to be abandoned because it was too dark for a rescue effort. They assumed he had drowned, but he turned up a day later wet and barefoot. His messmates told him he’d let a perfect opportunity to desert go by. “Why in hell didn’t you go home?” they asked him. “Everybody thought you were dead!”
Source:
Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “The Hounds.” The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy. Anchor Books, 2010. 128. Print.
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