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and he walked right through the Confederate Army,
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a garrison of 10,000 troops,
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where he was no doubt simply mistaken for yet another black camp hand,
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and at dusk he just crossed through the Confederate camp
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and he walked out of Mobile.
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And his final escape is a three-week trek,
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which he narrates in remarkable ways,
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a three-week trek down the western shore of Mobile Bay for twenty-five miles
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through a snake and alligator invested swamp,
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now known as the Fowl River Estuary.
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I've been there, I've seen the alligators and the snakes,
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from a large ferry boat.