My conductor told me he couldn't go to-day on account of a
funeral, but he promised faithfully to start to-morrow. Every one was full of
forebodings as to my probable fate when I fell into Yankee clutches. In
deference to their advice I took off my grey shooting-jacket, in which they
said I was sure to be taken for a rebel, and I put on a black coat; but I
scouted all well-meant advice as to endeavouring to disguise myself as an “American
citizen,” or to conceal the exact truth in any way. I was aware that a great
deal depended upon falling into the hands of a gentleman, and I did not believe
these were so rare in the Northern army as the Confederates led me to suppose.
SOURCE: Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three
Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863, p. 297-8
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