. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . The old ones were taken avvay and we hadentirely new faces. Swims got considerably intoxicated, and while hewas lowering our scanty breakfast to us on the morning of the thirtieth,he heid his white head over the trap longer than usual, and drawled out: They say Mitchel is coming. We ate slowly, encouraging him totalk, and managing in a little while to get out of him about all he knewin regard to th€ fight. He said people blamed General Leadbetter forletting Mitchel get the better of him, and that now th
. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . The old ones were taken avvay and we hadentirely new faces. Swims got considerably intoxicated, and while hewas lowering our scanty breakfast to us on the morning of the thirtieth,he heid his white head over the trap longer than usual, and drawled out: They say Mitchel is coming. We ate slowly, encouraging him totalk, and managing in a little while to get out of him about all he knewin regard to th€ fight. He said people blamed General Leadbetter forletting Mitchel get the better of him, and that now they had no men inthe town able to defend it. All this was glorious news, and we listenea?or the booming of cannon, and for a time we heard them, tnougn 2^S Dari)ig and Suffering, faintly. We would have been glad to have a few shots in the jail yard andwere even willing to risk one or two in the old jail itself—enough to makea breach in the walls ! But our captors had no intention of loosing us. Soon the trap-doorwas opened in great excitement and hurry, and we were all called up the. The Raiders Seated in the Cars. ladder. In the upper room our irons were inspected, and new fasteningsadded. Then we marched away from the old jail, as we hoped forever,and on through the town to the depot, where we waited for the cars. VVeunderstood it all. But we knew Mitchels wonderful speed m movementso well that we hoped he was really coming to Chattanooga, and would geton the railroad in some way, before we could be run further south. The General Mitchel Saves tJie Raiders. 239 train was late, and we had no wish to hurry it. To simply be out of doors,in the free air, was delicious. We lacked the vigor of three weeks before,but were rapidly reviving. Several actually staggered from weaknesswhen they first came up out of the terrible pit. The cars came before long and we were once more on board andmoving southward. How vividly we remembered leaving that station forour first journey over the
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