When one morning in March 1863 a man called Peter stumbled over Union lines and into the arms of Abraham Lincoln's soldiers, few could believe he had made it alive.
Pursued for miles by bloodhounds, he had run barefoot and without stopping through swamps, creeks and fields for 10 days. Exhausted and barely conscious, his clothes were tattered and soaked with mud, sweat and blood.
But his journey was nothing compared to the horrors Peter had escaped from.
