. Capturing a locomotive: a history of secret service in the late war . )lans. In a voice as softand low as a womans, but tremulous with suppressed. MIDNIGHT CONSULTATION. 33 entlmsiasm, he painted the greatness of the project wewere to attempt, the sublimity of rushing through ahostile country at the full speed of steam, leaving flamingbridges and raging but powerless foes behind. But hedid not disguise the dangers to be encountered. Soldiers, he said, if you are detected while en-gaged in this business, the great probability is that youwill be put to death,—hung as spies, or massacred bya mo
. Capturing a locomotive: a history of secret service in the late war . )lans. In a voice as softand low as a womans, but tremulous with suppressed. MIDNIGHT CONSULTATION. 33 entlmsiasm, he painted the greatness of the project wewere to attempt, the sublimity of rushing through ahostile country at the full speed of steam, leaving flamingbridges and raging but powerless foes behind. But hedid not disguise the dangers to be encountered. Soldiers, he said, if you are detected while en-gaged in this business, the great probability is that youwill be put to death,—hung as spies, or massacred bya mob. I want you to clearly understand this, and ifyou are not willing to take the risk, return to camp,and keep perfectly quiet about it. A murmur all around the circle conveyed the assur-ance that we would follow him to the last extremity. Our plan, he continued, is simply this: you areto travel on foot, or by any conveyance you can hire,either to Chattanooga or some station not far from thatpoint on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad ; thenyou can take passage on the cars down to Marietta ;that will be our next place of assembling, and not
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