An hour's industrious work with a half-canteen would take any one outside, or if a boy was too lazy to dig his own tunnel, he could have the use of one of the hundred others that had been dug.
But escaping was only begun when the Stockade was passed.

The site of Savannah is virtually an island.

On the north is the Savannah River; to the east, southeast and south, are the two Ogeechee rivers, and a chain of sounds and lagoons connecting with the Atlantic Ocean.

To the west is a canal connecting the Savannah and Big Ogeechee Rivers.

We found ourselves headed off by water whichever way we went.