<​July 4​> were seen rushing after us, some on horseback, and some on foot, prepared with dogs, guns, and whatever came to hand. But the flag of Liberty with its Eagle, still floated on high, in the distance, and under its banner our nerves seemed to strengthen at every step. We gained the horses, mounted, and dashed into the Wilderness, each his own way. After a few jumps of my horse I was hailed by an armed man at pistol shot distance, crying, “dam you, stop, of I’ll shoot you” I rushed onward deeper in the forest, while the cry was repeated in close pursuit, crying, “dam you, stop, or I’ll shoot you”, at every step, till at length it died away in the distance. I plunged a mile into the forest— came to a halt— tied my horse in a thicket— went a distance, and climbed a tree, to await the approaching darkness. Being so little used to exercise, I fainted through over exertion, and remained so faint for near an hour, that I could not get down from the Tree. <​But calling on the Lord he strengthened me, and I came down from the Tree​> But my horse had got loose and gone. I then made my way on foot for several days and nights, principally without food, and scarcely suffering myself to be seen. After five days of dreadful suffering with fatigue and hunger, I crossed the , and found myself once more in a land of Freedom.”