The passage, however, is your real difficulty, and I should say that, instead of going in that direction, you had better bear nearly due south.

There is a road from Mount Pleasant that strikes into the main road from Columbia up to Camden.

You can cross the river at that point without any question or suspicion, as you would be merely traveling to the west of the State.

Once across you could work directly south, crossing into the State of Mississippi, and from there take the cars through Alabama to Georgia.
"It seems a roundabout way, but I think you would find it far the safest, for there are no armies operating upon that line.

The population, at any rate as you get south, are for us, and there are, so far as I have heard, very few of these bushwhacking bands about, either on one side or the other.