This would give us frown eight to ten thousand fairly armed, resolute men, with which we thought we could march to Appalachicola Bay, or to Sherman.
We worked energetically at our tunnels, which soon began to assume such shape as to give assurance that they would answer our expectations in opening the prison walls.
Then came the usual blight to all such enterprises: a spy or a traitor revealed everything to Wirz.

One day a guard came in, seized Baker and took him out.

What was done with him I know not; we never heard of him after he passed the inner gate.
Immediately afterward all the Sergeants of detachments were summoned outside.

There they met Wirz, who made a speech informing them that he knew all the details of the plot, and had made sufficient preparations to defeat it.

The guard had been strongly reinforced, and disposed in such a manner as to protect the guns from capture.