. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . of was to go up the river to Chattanooga, and try to get over directlyat the town. This involved a laborious and hurried half days journeymostly over mountain paths and rugged valleys. The river is verycrooked and as we journeyed we were sometimes on its banks, and again,6 82 Daring and Suffering. miles distant. At length we turned into a road that was more travelled,and which led down a valley directly to the river bank nearly oppositeChattanooga. Travellers were now more frequent and from them welearned
. Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. . of was to go up the river to Chattanooga, and try to get over directlyat the town. This involved a laborious and hurried half days journeymostly over mountain paths and rugged valleys. The river is verycrooked and as we journeyed we were sometimes on its banks, and again,6 82 Daring and Suffering. miles distant. At length we turned into a road that was more travelled,and which led down a valley directly to the river bank nearly oppositeChattanooga. Travellers were now more frequent and from them welearned many items of news. The accounts of the battle of PittsburgLanding were not quite so rose-colored as the day before, but still theytold of a wonderful victory, though not won without considerable loss. One item of news from the East was still more interesting: it was thatthe Merrimac had steamed out, and after engaging the Monitor for sometime without decisive result, had thrown her grappling irons on the latter,and towed her ashore, where of course she fell an easy prey. Our infor-. Preparing to Cross the Tennessee River. mant claimed that now, as the Confederates had the two best gunboats inthe world, they would be able to raise the blockade without difficulty, andburn the Northern cities. I need not say that the histories of the warhave all neglected to record this wonderful capture. From this timeforward we heard of almost continuous Confederate victories, althoughit was not infrequently stated, after a battle, that their own forces hadfallen back for strategic reasons. On reaching the river shortly after noon we saw a large number ofpersons, several of them belonging to our own party. The ferryman wasalso here with his craft, a little frail boat driven by horses, but such afearful wind storm was raging that he feared to attempt the passage. Wewaited as patiently as possible. Others of our number came up and the The Heart of the Confederacy Reached. 83 ■danger of detectio
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