(06-11-2017 04:37 PM)SSlater Wrote: RJ. I gathered these facts a long time ago, so I can't provide exact sources. (Jim Hall was alive and reviewed this story before publication in the "Courier").
" ...left for Richmond on Saturday 8 April and traveled 12 miles south and stopped at a farm house for the night...the next day Palm Sunday, continued south...and was arrested along the road by Sgt. Green...searched and questioned...escorted to Port Tobacco and questioned by Lt. Lavery." At the time I wrote this I omitted detail so the reader would have something to look forward to if he read my references.
However I did continue with "...after being locked up, he said that he escaped and headed south, headed for the river. It was about dawn and he needed a place to hide. He was near Chapel Point, so he snuggled up against a log, pulled leaves over himself and waited out a very wet day... he heard cavalry searching. The rain stopped and that night there was a half moon. (The full moon was 11 April.)Bill Tidwell gave me these figures from 1865 Weather Data -It rained on the 21st.
Stringfellow is quoted as saying that "it took 21 days of hunger, cold and narrow escapes to reach Virginia".
When Stringfellow traveled North back in March - he took this same route and he is quoted as saying that he knew of Dr. Jones and he was a southern sympathizer. so, this shows us that this was his route home.
Stringfellow wrote "Scout Life". Others are Bakeless with "Spies of the Confederacy". Wearing of the Grey" by John Esten Cook, PS I do not own any of these.
It isn't terribly important, but Stringfellow's "Cover Story" for the trip to Washington was, he was trying to convince a foreign embassy to initiate negotiations that would lead to the termination of the war.
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