. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . e concluded that those two mencould not arrest us, anyway, we said that we were Union soldiers, and belonged to the 332 Daring and Suffering. party called engine-thieves. They had all heard of that raid, and now made us welcomeindeed ! They invited us to stay a week and rest up. We were willing, if we could besecreted somewhere. They told us that they could hide us where the First Great Rebelcould not find us. I told them that was just where I wanted to go! We had a good time, being kept in the back room d
. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . e concluded that those two mencould not arrest us, anyway, we said that we were Union soldiers, and belonged to the 332 Daring and Suffering. party called engine-thieves. They had all heard of that raid, and now made us welcomeindeed ! They invited us to stay a week and rest up. We were willing, if we could besecreted somewhere. They told us that they could hide us where the First Great Rebelcould not find us. I told them that was just where I wanted to go! We had a good time, being kept in the back room during the afternoon. Theyput a large dog out on picket, and we told them army stories and sung songs till the dog barked, and then stopped. They told us not to be uneasy, as the dogsmaster was coming. They told him whom they had in the back room, and he came inand took us by the hands, and laughed and cried, and told us some hard tales about hisbeing imprisoned because he was for the Union. It was now settled that we should stay for a few days. A large basket of grub was. ^< The Fugitives Entering a Cave. prepared, and their boy, pretending to be going coon-hunting, made ready a large were to follow a short distance behind, with quilts and provisions. We first wentdown the river, and then turned up the mountain and went up, up, till I thought wewould never get to the top. We turned into another ravine, and again went up, up, tillwe came to a solid wall across our ravine. It looked as if the top of the mountain hadslid down and barred the passage. Our guide turned a little to the left, and among thebushes he got down and showed us a hole big enough to crawl in. He entered with historch and we followed. There was a good-sized room in the cave, and he said we couldhave all the fire we wanted, and hallo as loud as we pleased without danger. It did lookas if the Evil One would have quite a task to find us here. Then he gave us countersignsand promised to com
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