. Famous adventures and prison escapes of the civil war . d the farmer. We had now left behind us the last settlement, andbefore us lay only wild and uninhabited trail we traveled was an Indian path extending fornearly seventy miles through an uninhabited wilder-ness. Instead of crossing the ridges it follows the trendof the range, winding for the most part along the crestsof the divides. The occasional traveler, having oncemounted to its level, pursues his solitary way with lit-tle climbing. Early in the morning of the fourth day our littleparty was assembled upon the last mount
. Famous adventures and prison escapes of the civil war . d the farmer. We had now left behind us the last settlement, andbefore us lay only wild and uninhabited trail we traveled was an Indian path extending fornearly seventy miles through an uninhabited wilder-ness. Instead of crossing the ridges it follows the trendof the range, winding for the most part along the crestsof the divides. The occasional traveler, having oncemounted to its level, pursues his solitary way with lit-tle climbing. Early in the morning of the fourth day our littleparty was assembled upon the last mountain overlook-ing the open country of East Tennessee. Some of ushad been wandering in the mountains for the wholewinter. We were returning to a half-forgotten worldof farms and fences, roads and railways. Below usstretched the Tellico River away toward the line of A HAED KOAD TO TEAVEL OUT OF DIXIE 295 towns marking the course of the Nashville and Chatta-nooga Railroad. One of the guides who had ventureddown to the nearest house returned with information. THE MEETING WITH THE SECOND OHIO HEAVY AilTILLEKY. that the four hundred Texan Rangers had burned thedepot at Philadelphia Station the day before, but werenow thought to be out of the country. We could seethe distant smoke arising from the ruins. Where theriver flowed out of the mountains were extensive iron- 29G ADVENTUEES AND ESCAPES IN THE CIVIL WAE works, the property of a loyal citizen, and in front ofhis house we halted for consultation. He regrettedthat we had shown ourselves so soon, as the rear-guardof the marauders had passed the night within sight ofwhere we now stood. Our nearest pickets were atLoudon, thirty miles distant on the railway, and forthis station we were advised to make all speed. For half a mile the road ran along the bank of theriver, and then turned around a wooded bluff to theright. Opposite this bluff and accessible by a shal-low ford was another hill, where it was feared thatsome of the Rangers wer
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