. Daring and suffering : a history of the great railroad adventure . ream ofrapture ! We were scarcely conscious of passingevents. No emotion on earth has the samesweep and intensity as the wild, throbiaing sen-sations that rush thick and fast through thebosom of the liberated captive! 286 DARING AND SUFFERING; OR The Mebal—(reduced size.) On we went—reachedthe gunboats that ply npmmjim:^ and down the river, like giant sentinels,guardingthe avenue to rebellion11111 i i —reached the rivers mouth, passed onwardup the bay to Washing-ton I As we came insight, we- thronged tu-multuously to the ves-
. Daring and suffering : a history of the great railroad adventure . ream ofrapture ! We were scarcely conscious of passingevents. No emotion on earth has the samesweep and intensity as the wild, throbiaing sen-sations that rush thick and fast through thebosom of the liberated captive! 286 DARING AND SUFFERING; OR The Mebal—(reduced size.) On we went—reachedthe gunboats that ply npmmjim:^ and down the river, like giant sentinels,guardingthe avenue to rebellion11111 i i —reached the rivers mouth, passed onwardup the bay to Washing-ton I As we came insight, we- thronged tu-multuously to the ves-sels side, and bent eager,loving eyes on the snowyiV( IM ^\ niarble front, and whitetowering steeple of ournations Capitol. On our arrival, wewere requested by theReverse OF Medal. Secretary of War to give our depositions be-fore Hon. Joseph Holt,mi n I Judge Advocate Gene- j^ V ral, that the world at wiLimmTrmG^ i^^g* s^ ^^ ° ^ompafijG^B^—*-^^ the surest foundation MoYd/ the truth of our nar-rative. We were re-ceived by the Judge himself, and Major-Gene-.
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