. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . ome of the best material —that is for conscription into the rebelarmy— I ever saw. He was perfectly right as far as appearance went;but some of that motley crowd did manage to do effective fighting, andwith very good will, against their former oppressors ! While the wrangling over details was still going on, without, as far aswe could see, any prospect of termination, the order was suddenly givenus to < Go on board. Most promptly it was obeyed. It meant a greatdeal for us to be actually under the Sta
. The great locomotive chase; a history of the Andrews railroad raid into Georgia in 1862 . ome of the best material —that is for conscription into the rebelarmy— I ever saw. He was perfectly right as far as appearance went;but some of that motley crowd did manage to do effective fighting, andwith very good will, against their former oppressors ! While the wrangling over details was still going on, without, as far aswe could see, any prospect of termination, the order was suddenly givenus to < Go on board. Most promptly it was obeyed. It meant a greatdeal for us to be actually under the Stars and Stripes once more. But nottiil the boat cast loose and swung into the stream did we count ourselves 404 Daring and Suffering. truly out of rebel hands. Then we felt as one who has awakened from ahideous nightmare dream to find that all its shapes of horror and grinningfiends have passed away, and that he is in the wholesome sunlight blue sky above us was heaven indeed, and the sunshine pure hearts beat glad music to the threshing of the wheels on the water,. Eating in the Engine-Room. knowing that each stroke was placing a greater distance between us andour enemies. Then, too, the hearty welcome with which we were greeted; the goodcheer, so different from our miserable prison fare; and the kind faces smil-ing all around, showed in living colors that we were free men again. In regard to food, the great difficulty now was one we had not en-countered for a year past—that of over eating ! A years famine had made Homeward Bound. 405 us terribly hungry, and we received cautions on this point which were notunneedful. Nothing in the rations was more enjoyed than the tin cup ofgood coffee which was given to us all—genuine coffee was something whichwe had not tasted inside the rebel lines—and I am not certain that I havefound any as good since ! No place on the boat seemed more homelikethan the engine room, where I sat and ate slowly for a long time. T
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