. . . stuck out to the end of the chapter. The last heard of him was, that he stole away from the fort at night and in the darkness, and made his escape, leaving his coadjutors to their fate. The last thing he will take will be a piece of hemp cord, with a noose on the end of it. – Chicago Tribune.
It was the perfect understanding of the last fact, to save his neck from hemp, that caused the chivalrous Floyd to skedaddle.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2
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