. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . raid a number of prominent citizens peti-tioned Gov. Brown of Georgia to bestow a suitable reward on Capt. Fullerfor his indomitable energy and pluck, who in turn recommended him tothe Georgia Legislature. He was voted a gold medal and the thanks of theLegislature but had to be contented with the latter only, as gold became 1 See extract from message in Chap. XLI. i Go Daring and Suffering. exceedingly scarce in the South and enough for the purpose was not avail*able. It was sad for him that his brillia
. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . raid a number of prominent citizens peti-tioned Gov. Brown of Georgia to bestow a suitable reward on Capt. Fullerfor his indomitable energy and pluck, who in turn recommended him tothe Georgia Legislature. He was voted a gold medal and the thanks of theLegislature but had to be contented with the latter only, as gold became 1 See extract from message in Chap. XLI. i Go Daring and Suffering. exceedingly scarce in the South and enough for the purpose was not avail*able. It was sad for him that his brilliant services were given to a lostcause, and could therefore bring no Governmental reward. He hasalways, since the close of the contest, been on friendly terms with the sur-vivors on the Union side, as they respected bravery, and believed thathe did simply what he regarded as his duty. Capt. Fuller continued to serve as conductor on the same road whileit was under Confederate control; but in the summer of 1864 the routebegan to shorten rapidly. As he graphically said, Sherman bit a piece. vS?& The General.—From a photograph taken in Atlanta in 1887, by the W. and A. R. R. Co. Conduc-tor Fuller and Captain Parrott are shown. off the end of it almost every day till it was all gone. Then he wasmade a captain in the Confederate service, and afterwards given charge ofall the rolling stock of the road—Sherman was never as successful asMitchel in capturing such spoils—and kept it out of Federal hands, untilthe final collapse of the Confederacy. After the restoration of the Union,he continued for ten years more in his old position as conductor, then forseven or eight years was a merchant of Atlanta,when he retired from activebusiness. CHAPTER XIV. HUNTED IN THE WOODS. rHE following narratives of that strangest and most thrilling of humanexperiences, where men were hunted as wild animals, are left sub-stantially unchanged, except where a better knowledge of the coun-try leads to som
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