. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . hell and son at myfathers home and palmed himself off to us as a non-combatantJohnnie Reb. The name of the engine was the General. Therailroad management keep it in condition still, and exhibited it at theChicago Exposition, at the opening of the Chickamauga Park, and hadit at the Centennial, with its valves and wheels, rods, pistons, andcylinders, its brazen lungs and throat of fire, on which Andrews andhis party of Yankee raiders took their seventy-five-mile journey todeath in Dixie. History records the adventure as a most thrilling Till: OLD
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . hell and son at myfathers home and palmed himself off to us as a non-combatantJohnnie Reb. The name of the engine was the General. Therailroad management keep it in condition still, and exhibited it at theChicago Exposition, at the opening of the Chickamauga Park, and hadit at the Centennial, with its valves and wheels, rods, pistons, andcylinders, its brazen lungs and throat of fire, on which Andrews andhis party of Yankee raiders took their seventy-five-mile journey todeath in Dixie. History records the adventure as a most thrilling Till: OLD GENERA1 * \\|. THE LITTLE I ORPi >i: A !.. .Ml incident and one of the mosl reckless and daring events on I have heard of a feat that, if true, for boldness and success-ful execution surpasses it, and it has but few parallels in the chapterof deeds. It is said to have taken n the Hood campaign into Tennessee, when Forri I environed Murfreesboro, in December, [ was told to me by one of the prisoners as a tale around the cam]). THE OLD GENERAL. fire after the escape. The Federal General Rousseau was shut upwith ten thousand men in the town, when one day three of Forrestscavalry—F. A. (Dock) Turner, Alonzo McLean, James Smotherman,of Lytles company, Holmans regiment—and one of Forrests scouts—were captured in an attempt to tear up the railroad at Wartraceand placed by Rousseau in a fort at Murfreesboro, tog-ether with aboutone hundred- prisoners that wire picked up after the battle of Frank-lin. It soon became noised that these men were to be shot as bush-whackers. General Forrest informed General Rousseau, by flagof truce, that those men were his regular soldiers, and that if he shotthem it would be at his peril. The names of his soldiers were sentin, but the scout and Bose Rouss (sonic called him Malungeon),who had killed a Federal detective, were not mentioned in the pall of sorrow came over the prisoners in the fort when GeneralRousseau, in wi
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