. The story of the "General", 1862. -- . nced thatshe was fagging. The fugitives abandoned theengine and took to the woods in a westerly direc-tion. Captain Fuller now ran up and coupled on tothe burning car. The fire was extinguished and thecar sent back to Ringgold in charge of the Captain Fuller passed Ringgold he noticed somefifty or seventy-five militia mustering and sent backword to the commanding officer to put all his MILITIA ON HORSEBACK and send them into the woods in pursuit of thefugitives as quickly as possible. This was abouthalf past one oclock Although jaded an
. The story of the "General", 1862. -- . nced thatshe was fagging. The fugitives abandoned theengine and took to the woods in a westerly direc-tion. Captain Fuller now ran up and coupled on tothe burning car. The fire was extinguished and thecar sent back to Ringgold in charge of the Captain Fuller passed Ringgold he noticed somefifty or seventy-five militia mustering and sent backword to the commanding officer to put all his MILITIA ON HORSEBACK and send them into the woods in pursuit of thefugitives as quickly as possible. This was abouthalf past one oclock Although jaded and fa-tigued, Captain Fuller, Anthony Murphy, FlemingCox and Alonzo Martin took to the woods in pur-suit. When the fugitives abandoned the engine,Andrews, their leader, said: every one take care of himself, and they left in squads of three or four. Four ofthem were run down in the fork of the Chicka-mauga River, at Graysville, and one was forciblypersuaded to tell who they were. The militia,mounted on fresh horses, scoured the woods that. WILSON W. BROWN, Corporal, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in Farwell, Mich. w ***■* WILLIAM H. REDDICK, 33d Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Died in Seventy-six Township, Muscatine County, Iowa, November 8, 1903. 18 The Story of the General. afternoon, and in a few days the last of the fugitiveswere captured. Later there was a trial by military court, and eightof the number were executed in Atlanta as were exchanged and eight escaped from prisonat Atlanta. Thus ended one of the most daring ex-ploits on record. There were twenty-two men engaged in the en-terprise. Twenty of them were from Ohio and two from Kentucky. # * * The following official letter received from the WarDepartment is reproduced, on account of the valu-able information it contains :
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