. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . noxville. In March, however, he despaired and determined to abandonthe unequal struggle. With some six hundred men he tried to fight hisway through to the Federal forces. At the foot of Cumberland Moun-tains, about ten miles from Jonesboro, he was attacked by an overwhelm-ing rebel force, and defeated, his men scattered, and himself badlywounded. Soon after he was captured and taken to Knoxville, where hewould have been hanged had itnot been for a very vigorous let-ter1 with threats of retaliationfrom Gens
. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . noxville. In March, however, he despaired and determined to abandonthe unequal struggle. With some six hundred men he tried to fight hisway through to the Federal forces. At the foot of Cumberland Moun-tains, about ten miles from Jonesboro, he was attacked by an overwhelm-ing rebel force, and defeated, his men scattered, and himself badlywounded. Soon after he was captured and taken to Knoxville, where hewould have been hanged had itnot been for a very vigorous let-ter1 with threats of retaliationfrom Gens. Morgan and had thrown a citizens coatover his uniform in his last effortto escape and this was held toconstitute him a spy. He waskept in the most rigorous con-finement until removed with usfrom Knoxville, and for monthsafterwards he shared our for-tunes. The hardships enduredin this whole adventure wereindescribable. His hair andbeard were black when e leftKentucky camp, (as shown inthe accompanying photograph,)but when I knew him a fewmonths later both were Capt. David Fry. From a photograph. On this long journey from Knoxville directly to Atlanta we carried norations, and as we now had no guerilla friends to supply the neglect oftheir officers, we were obliged to fast through. A comparatively weakguard was sent along, as the pressing emergencies of the Confederate ser-vice which had compelled our removal also made it difficul to spareheavy guards for the prisoners being removed in different attendants had barely provisions enough for themselves, and did not,therefore, feel that they could share with us. On the way the populace—it was usually the worst elements of the towns that would thus gather E. Kirby Smith to Gen. Carter, April 19th,1862. War Records, Series I., Vol. XVI., Part 2. 276 Daring and Suffering. around the stations—taunted us with Andrewss death, and charitably hopedthat we would share the same fate. But officers ta
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