I made a clear statement to the woman in charge of it about how I had made my escape, and asked her to secrete me in the house until night.

I was soon convinced, however, from what she told me, as well as from my own knowledge of how things were managed in the Confederacy, that it would not be right for me to stay there, for if the house was searched and I found in it, it would be the worse for her.

Therefore, not wishing to entail misery upon another, I begged her to give me something to eat, and going to the swamp near by, succeeded in getting well without detection.
I lay there all day, and during the time had a very severe chill and afterwards a burning fever, so that when night came, knowing I could not travel, I resolved to return to the cabin and spend the night, and give myself up the next morning.

There was no trouble in returning.

I learned that my fears of the morning had not been groundless, for the guards had actually searched the house for me.