. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . how. If I remembercorrectly, each man had his boots or shoes off, so that we could avoid making a noise. Wecould see the dim, gray form of the sentry, and hear his tread as he paced back and was an anxious moment of suspense, when at last, in a whisper, word was passed from oneto the other in the dark prison, that all was ready. Andrews crept out and swung down, but in some manner a loose brick or piece ofmortar fell to the ground and attracted the notice of the sentry, and almost instantly weh
. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . how. If I remembercorrectly, each man had his boots or shoes off, so that we could avoid making a noise. Wecould see the dim, gray form of the sentry, and hear his tread as he paced back and was an anxious moment of suspense, when at last, in a whisper, word was passed from oneto the other in the dark prison, that all was ready. Andrews crept out and swung down, but in some manner a loose brick or piece ofmortar fell to the ground and attracted the notice of the sentry, and almost instantly weheard the report of a gun. John Wollam, who was next behind Andrews, paid no heed to ^ Adventures of ^If. Wilson, page 122. Toledo, 1880. 252 Daring and Suffering. the shot, but lunged out head over heels. Bang . oang ! went the muskets, and there wa. ?. ctpo~l of the guard , Post of the guard , Halt • ^Dorsey who was following Wolhun through the hole, halted between two h^d better jump down while the rebel sentry stood beneath holdmg a cocked ^. Escape of Andiews and \\ jUarn gun with f^xed bayonet on him, or crawlback into the old prison cock-loft andbear the ills he was certain of Hecrawled back and told us it was all upwith us. We were crowded in the loftwaiting for our turn to go out. andHstening to the racket on the outsideWithin a very few moments, almost notime at all, the yard was filled ^Mthtroops, and by their loud, excited talkwe learned, to our unspeakable joy, of ^-XlilTcTurZlino. a. ,hat . know .-no or hov man, of 1 he reoeis. oi c , ^i-eadv knew that the excited sentries had theirfireddead A Struggle Against Destiny 25j or alive. While we felt the keenest disappointment at our failure to get out, yet we felt athousand times repaid for our effort that even Andrews had escaped. A heavy load hadbeen lifted from our minds. We took new hope. We knew that Andrews would put forthsuperhuman efforts to gain the Federal lines
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