. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . Elihu H. Mason, From a war-time photograph. In Cave and Momitain. 329 and put them on our trail. We had a big hill to go down and then one to go up before wecould reach the woods. We put in our best licks, and could hear the hounds comingtheir We got down the hill and across the flat, and were climbing the hill, when wesaw that the hounds were about to overtake us. and we prepared for battle by stopping ina stony place and getting a pile of rocks ready. We waited for them to come close up,and too
. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . Elihu H. Mason, From a war-time photograph. In Cave and Momitain. 329 and put them on our trail. We had a big hill to go down and then one to go up before wecould reach the woods. We put in our best licks, and could hear the hounds comingtheir We got down the hill and across the flat, and were climbing the hill, when wesaw that the hounds were about to overtake us. and we prepared for battle by stopping ina stony place and getting a pile of rocks ready. We waited for them to come close up,and took them at short range. We rolled them down the hill ; and then, as the Southern-ers used to say after a battle, We won the victory, but we evacuated the ground : for by. Victory over the Bloodhoutids. this time we could see our threecallers coming around the roadnear by, on horseback, to getahead of us. We got to the woodsas soon as possible, and when wewere out of sight, changed ourcourse so as to get away from thehorsemen. They got part of theirhounds rallied so that they wouldfollow along and howl on ourtrack, but they could not be madeto close up on us any more. After/A - <^^ \ W^fi^^i/^^^^^^ fl a while we would see those horse- men headmg us oft agam, andthen we would cut in another direction, and the hounds would give them our course noon we came to a small stream of water. We plunged into that, and would stoopdown and take up our hands full of water, and drink as we ran. We kept in the bed of thatstream for a couple of hours, and then the hounds lost track of us. Soon after we reachedStone Mountain, about eighteen miles east of Atlanta, and went on the north side of itand concealed ourselves in the grass till dark, when we picked
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