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dinner came in and was soon dispatched. Prisoners + Guards seemed to be in painful suspense. Soon after dinner, Serjt Young returned and suddenly the whole encampment was in a bustle. Our horses were brought out + saddled in a hurry. Serjeant Young informed us that the Lawyers were in town, with a writ of habeas corpus to carry us before Judge Hooper. All things being ready, we were unclear to mount. We did so, unclear in Company, with the Col. + Serjeant + some ten or fifteen of the Guard, slipped out off in sly + solemn silence!! We proceeded forth along the public road a short distance, when Serjt Young, with the prisoners and five or six of the Guard, turned to the right and took the woods. Various were our conjectures respecting our fate. Whether we would be thrown into a cave (which had been spoken of previously) or introduced to Capt. Slick, or taken to the Cherokee Agency, was all a mystery to us. We went ahead, however, through thickets + swamps, over hills + along old paths, - a circuitous serpentine course of about twenty miles, to Serj. Young's. In a few minutes after our arrival, up rode the Lawyers again and called for lodging, but, of course, were denyed! They were on their way to Red Clay. we took supper + breakfast with Mr Young + broke for the woods again. We soon found an old road, travelled it a few miles, took to the woods again to see for a retired place at which to rest + graze our horses. After grazing, talking + sleeping an hour or two, we went on to Squire Clark's, who lives on the line between Walker + Murray Counties. Here we took dinner, supper + breakfast in Murray but slept in Walker. After we had, as General Jackson said of the Kentuckyans, "ingloriously fled" from the civil authority, at Spring Place, messengers were flying night + day from the Col. to the Serjeant and back to the Colonel again, and it is said that spies were kept up in various directions to watch the movement of the lawyers + the civil authority. The same night we staid at Squire Clark's, Col: Bishop + his company encamped at Clark's about 10 or 12 miles south on the same road. On Saturday morning after breakfast, we