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Found friends.
We then proceeded on our way to
Baltimore.
One night we travelled some distance with a negro, who was very communicative, and proffered all sorts of information about the country, the Unionists, and ‘Secesh,’ as he called them: but he was too friendly to both sides for us to trust; though we knew we had friends thereabouts, and needed their assistance very much.
In a few days, however, while traveling along in daytime, we were overtaken by a good and ignorant old darkey, with whom we travelled for some distance (this was, perhaps, about twenty-five or thirty miles beyond
Baltimore), from whom we learned all about the ‘Secesh’ in the neighborhood.
While with the old darky we saw in front a large frame building, standing about 150 yards from the road.
We learned from the old man that it was the residence of one
Dr. P., who owned slaves, and whose son was not in the
Yankee army.
With this, and other things told us by the old dark about the country, we were sure that we were at last among friends.
As we passed in front of the house we saw sitting on the veranda three young ladies and a young man. However, we passed on with the old negro some distance beyond, when, to get rid of our new-made friend, we lay down by the roadside for a rest.
