. The story of the "General", 1862. -- . he said, was behind with theregular passenger train. He insisted that the agentshould let him have a switch key and instruct theconductors of the down trains to pull by and get outof his way, as it was important for him to go on to The Story of the Generalr. Chattanooga and Corinth as rapidly as possible. Soauthoritative was he in his demands, and so plausi-ble in his speech, that the agent, a patriotic man,believing his story, carried out his request, and so thefugitives, by the finesse of their leader, passed byone great obstruction. The freight train
. The story of the "General", 1862. -- . he said, was behind with theregular passenger train. He insisted that the agentshould let him have a switch key and instruct theconductors of the down trains to pull by and get outof his way, as it was important for him to go on to The Story of the Generalr. Chattanooga and Corinth as rapidly as possible. Soauthoritative was he in his demands, and so plausi-ble in his speech, that the agent, a patriotic man,believing his story, carried out his request, and so thefugitives, by the finesse of their leader, passed byone great obstruction. The freight trains weregathered here, and so heavy to move, that had Cap-tain Fuller stopped to get them out of his way,to pass, his delay would have been too long. Find-ing that he could not pass with old Yonah, heabandoned it. The Rome engine was on the Y,headed for Chattanooga, with one car attached. Heimmediately took possession of it, and continued thechase with all who would volunteer to go with had not proceeded far before he found cross-. TABLET ERECTED BY N., C. & ST. L. RY., MARKING THESPOT AT WHICH THE ENGINE GENERAL WASCAPTURED BY THE ANDREWS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTEDMARKING THE SPOT AT WHICHTHE GENERAL WAS ABAN-DONED. ties on the track every two or three hundred passing Kingston the fugitives punched out theend of the rear car, which enabled them to drop outties without slacking up. Captain Fuller was forcedto lose time in stopping to remove these obstruc-tions. Laboring under these disadvantages the pur-suers redoubled their energy and proceeded toAdairsville. When he reached a point four milesfrom Adairsville he found sixty yards of track tornup, and WILLIAM BENSINGER, Private, Company G, 2istOhio Infantry, member of the AndrewsRaiding living in McComb, Ohio.
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