Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 January 1888 — Page 7

DARING AND SUFFERING.

A History of the Andrews Railroad Eaid Into Georgia in 1862,

Tho Most Heroic and Tragic Episode of the Civil War.

By '.. LIAM PIXTEMulIB, A lir.Mfir.ft OF TUB BXI'KDITlu!*.

(Copyright**!, 1W7, by War l*uh1ifihinx N. Y., and (Hilritslied by urraugumrnt. with lhuiu.1

CHAPTER XII. A IIUKSIKQ CAII.

Rut for the wetness of the day ull hi9 efforts oven yet would have been foiled. AVe now did wliat lmd ticen in the mind of Andrews, donbtlens, for some time past—wlmt he might, tmrn tried even at the Ooslenaiila bridge had not tlie interval between that and Callioun been no fearfully short. Ho ordered us to tiro our last, ear while wo were running. It wius saiil easily, but was much harder to do. Kverythini? about tlio car was an wet us it will coniil be. The rain fell in torrents, and the wood was drenched in tho tender. It was by no small effort mid Hkillful firing that the online lire could he kept at t)io boat required for fast runnlng. But despot nto 'fingers ton everything conihustiblo iooso from tho car, and smashed it, into kindling. Some blazing fagots wore Rtolen from the engine and the tire made to bum. The rapid motion with driving rain was an obntacle at first, but as we fed up the blaze and sheltered it- as well as possible, it grow rapidly, till soon but one could stav on tho car and watch it, and all tlio others crowded on the tender and locomotivo. The steam was now gradually shut oft that we might come slowly upon tho bridge and be aide to leave tho burning ear just at the right place. We came to a full stop at this first Chickamuuga bridge, a large one, and woll covered. Inside It was at least drier than on the outHide, and wo doubted not that with time it would burn well. The only question was: "Will that time bo given?" We added almost the last of our oil and nearly the Inst stick of wood—knowing that a wcvk) station was not far ahead, and if this bridge could be mode to burn well, we could have nil the time we wanted to get, wood ami everything else. In fact wo put life itself on this last throw, and left ourselves, in case of failuro, hopelessly bankrupt. For a considerable time, as it seemed to us. though it must have been measured by seconds rat her than minutes, we remained on the other side of the lira

KIXHt.INi A FUSE IS TIIK DOX CAT!, -.watching. Then the it ,?.\orable smoke nf -,tlie foe was seen the pin connecting the burning ear with our engine was pulled -out and we slowly movod on. Too clearly we saw the ruin of all our hopes! To wait the coming of our foes was vain. They were now near at hand, and we could see their guns, with which they would be able to flglit- us at lotur range. The ear which.

Jf the day luul been dry, would long before this have tilled the bridge with a mass of roaring tlame. was burning faster than -.the bridge. To take it to another bridge was useless, for the drenching rain would have given it little chance to burn away from the shelter of the bridge. Very sadly we left the tali column of smoke behind. The pursuers saw theear, and realizing how scrimis their los would be if it was permitted to consume the bridge, they pushed right into the smoke .-mil shoved the biuvriig car on to Kmggold, but a short distance ahead, where it was -left to smoke and sputter in tin-rain mi the side track.

We were now on what. pro\c:l in be our last run I have often been asked if this day was not one of great fear and terror on the part of those who were engaged in the ruce. lor my own part, I cannot honestly lay claim to any greater fear than I bad often felt in ordinary military service. No matter what happened, there was the assurance that we still had ono resource—the power to turn around and attack the pursuing foe. From the beginning. such a conflict bad been present to my mind as a matter of course. Before leaving camp, this had been reckoned a natural consequence of our position. It had been frequently talked of among the men, and not one of them seemed to regard it with any more dread than an ordinary battle. \Ve hail been careful to select large revolvers for use, anil not for show, and when we found the enemy gaining upon us, or our leader's plans for their destruction failing, wo only felt or said that our time to strike would soon come. We did not have the "wistful feeling that we were jm overmatch for a large body of soul hern soldiers, for we ull knew how desperately they could and often did light but of the ordinary citizens gathered up as we presumed our pursuers were, or even of conscripts, we had no great fear. That we had not our accustomed arms was a serious disadvantage, but this could be remedied by getting into close quarters: and we trusted that our leader, who had shown such wonderful skill in management, would be able to put us within short range of the pursuing train, where we felt sure that, we could quickly give good account- of it. l'robably the fact of Andrews having never been in battle, lint always engaged in schemes where his own cool daring and sagacious planning counted for everything, anil mere force for nothing, miido him hesitate to order an attack which would throw aside all these qualities anil determine the issue by simple lighting. A time was near when we would firmly have disputed our leader's command if there had been an olllcor of any authority among us who could have been substituted for him but not until Andrews himself had definitely abandoned his authority.

Many times the question has been asked: "Why did you not reverse your engine, and, jumping olT, let il drive back at the enemy!'" What good could that have done? If their engine anil our own had been destroyed, as was very probable, together with considerable number of lives, we would only have been whero wo

were before we captured the engine at all, except that tho wholo country would liavo been aroused, and our disguise thrown ott. The second train would liavo been 011 the ground in a few minutes and the power of pursuit would have been undiminished. We had no wish to sacrifice our own engine until tho last effort posslblu had been mado. To merely destroy had no charm for us, when that destruction could neither promote our escapu nor serve a military purpose.

CHAPTKlt XIII. TIIK I.AST IIOl'K.

We crouched down as well as wo could in the tender while passing Kinggold, that tile enemy might not sen our number, and when beyond the town we aroso and looked about us. The country was mostly wooded and rough, being much cut up by the. branches of the swollen Chickamuuga creek. We luul no fuel, though wo might have taken 011 a few water soaked fence rails and broken them tobnrn but what would have boon the use? Every combust ible scrap was carefully gathered up and thrown intotheengine. Worstsymptom of all, a large pair of saddle bags, which we had never seen Andrews without from the time of the midnight conference, together with his cap and some other pieces of clothing that he did not tiKoil for immediate use, were thing remorselessly into the furnace. Various papers went along. These were probably documents that he feared would compromise himself or others in case "of capture. Such preparations were indeed ominous. Hut his next command—the last lie over gave 1.0 us as a party—was more dreadful stHI, and for the first time that day there shot a pang of mortal terror to my heart. Not the crash of the engine down an embankment nor the coming of another train of the enemy from the north, shutting us between two fires, would have caused such a sense of despair and hopeless misery to steal over me. This was the order which, as intimated before, our party, had they been properly organized, would not have obeyed.

For our situation was still far from desperate. Aside from the capture of the pursuing train, which would now have been very diilicult from the fact that we had neither fuel for rapid running, nor the ol»sti actions 011 board that were necessary to place us far enough ahead for an ambuscade, there was another plan to wlilrh our leader was virtually pledged, which presented every prospect if saving our own lives, though it was now too late to accomplish our original purpose. We were some five miles beyond Kinggold, within a mile of (iraysville, or nineteen miles by the longest railway course from Chattanooga. From that city westward to lliiilgeiiort was weuty-eight miles fur ther. lint the nearest way to Bridgeport was not. through Chattanooga, but further south, and by that mule it was not distant more than thirty five or forty miles. The direct course was at right angles with the numerous mountain ranges which here run almost north and •"•outli, a route over which cavalry cHuld not be used, and which was known to more than one of our party. Two comrades had pocket compasses which would have guided us in thick woods or in cloudy weather by day or night. Now to have left our train in a body, and without delaying to seek concealment, to liw« struck over the streams and mountains at right angles, as rapidly as we could go, would have been our most- hopeful course. I,ong before night of the next day we would have been safe within Mltchel's lines' Why not? How could the enemy have captured us? if they seat cavalry, these would necessarily have made long circuits mid have been obliged to adhere to the lines of the road, and thus could not. have come near us while clinging to the valleys and the mountain sides. Kven in thick woods they could not have overtaken us. If they followed 11s with a strong party on foot, we lleeing for our lives, would not have deserved to escape, if we cutiM not have held our distance for forty miles or more. If they had ridden ahead and raised the whole country for a general man hunt, they would have had only Iwentj'-four hours or less to organize it-, and no small party then could have arrested twenty armed men. In fine, tills plan of escape through a mountainous and densely wooded country did not. appear to me lobe more dangerous than a cavalry dash 011 the lines of the enemy's communications—mi even day military alfair. K\en if Milchel did not prove to be in the neighborhood of lfridgcport when we arrived, we would I hen have been in the loyal mountainous district whero we would have met a.s many friends as foes. All that we needed in the way of provisions and guides our force would have enabled 11 to ci:vmiki"-!. :i!td even guns anil ammunition could readily hare been gathered on our way.

Hut all these advantages depended on our keeping together under one head. A11 army scattered and disorganized is lost and our little army was 110 exception. The fatal command which Andrews now gave as we were huddled together in the wood box of the tender was to jump otl', one by one, scatter in the woods, and each man strive to make his own way back to the I'liion army! We hesitated, but had 110 concert, of action. 110 leader, no lime for council, and the instinct, of obedience was still strong upon us but it was a fatal order, anil led directly to the calamities that followed. It transformed us in a moment from a formidable body of picked soldiers, ready to tight to death, into a scattered mass of fugitive boys, bewildered and hopeless in 1111 enemy's count ry.

Yet no one of us felt like censuring our leader for this order, which everyone at the moment believed to be a terrible mistake. Probably he thought that each man of the party would find relief in being cast entirely 011 his own resources.

It must further be remembered, in explanation of this mistaken order, that Andrews hail slept none the night, before, that he had been nearly twenty-four hours without food, and that he had spent nearly twodaysand a night in the most exhaust ing labors, both menial and physical, that it is jiossible to conceive. 1 le had seen his cherished plans, when on the brink of success, overthrown by what seemed the remorseless hand of destiny. To the many failures and sorrows of his past life bad been added the crowning misfortune of this defeat. Perhaps under his calm brow lie realized this with an intensity of anguish, and felt that the greatest favor he could do those he had led within sight of a horrible death, and into the presence of an enraged and triumphant foe, was to separate tlu in at once from his own dark and shadowed destiny. If so, that was the most fearful mistake of all: and as this order was given, we could almost, as we looked southward through the driving rain and the storm clouds, behold already the dark outline of the Atlanta sea Holds I it was pitiful! The Genera! had served us well ever since the morning hour in fearful sped and patient waiting, in exulting raptures and in almost despair. It

Was hard to abandon her now. she was substantially uninjured The engineers, Brown and Knight, had taken good caro of her, and with wood und oil in abundance, there would have been 110 difficulty on her part in completing tho run to Huntsvilie. Sho was still jogging along at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour, and could maintain that pace a little longer. Tho pursuers had also diminished their speed, so as to just keep us in sight, having apparently no wish to press upon what may have seemed to them like a wounded and dying lion. The command to "jump off and scatter" was repeated with the injunction to bo quick nbout it, as tho engineer wished to reverso the engine and drive it back upon the enemy. With such a reason there could bo no more hesitation. It is said that some three or four had already got off at tho first word of command but the most of us had hesitated, not on account of the still rapid motion of the train, but in tho idle hope that in some way this terrible parting might be averted. Now one after another clambered down on the step and swung otf. I was neither among tho first nor the last, and jumping unskillfttlly out from the step, instead of forward, whirled over and over 011 haudsnnd feet for several revolutions. Rising in a dazed condition, though unhurt., with tho exception of 11 few scratches from tho briers with which the place abounded, 1 looked over the animated scene with the deepest interest. The men who jumped off were, according to instructions, Hying ki different directions, a few others were just coming off the engine rn much the same way tint I had done, while the engineers were attempting to curry out their scheme of reversing the engine, which could do no good now, except possibly to

I.KAVINi TIIK LOCOMOTIVE.

delay the inevitable pursuit a little, and give us 11 lx*ttT upportunity to organize our plans. The brakes of the tender were put on still more to diminish speed, and tho reversal was made. Here is a slight conflict of authority. The pursuers say that the brakes were not loosed ain but our engineers are equally positive that they were. It is not material, for the reKult is the same. The steam power was so low, that though the engine moved back it was with moderate velocity, ami 1 saw the pursuers reverse also, and coming to a full stop, whistle two or three times as it approached—a seeming whistle of alarm, though there was little in the approach of our poor General to fear and then they moved slowly before it fora short distance till the t\»o were, in contact, when the weaker stopped and the steam was shut oil. he great railroad chase way over!

CIlAPTKR XIV.

H1INTKD IN TIIK WitltDS UV IM1GS AM* MVV

Dispersed in the woods with no knowledge of the country, and no guidu toward our own lines: with the alarm spreading in every direction, and the hearts of the people on ilie with lierce resentment because of the desperate character of our raid, the prospect ot escape for any of our number was slight inieed. The south was also better prepared for hunting down fugitive* than any other people could have been where slavery was not an established institution. Tracking men ovei hilN and mountains was no novelty and now for scores ot miles in every direction from Chattanooga roads and ferries were guarded, cavalry galloped along the roads, awl the planters with their packs of nemo hunting dogs explored every wood. Unfortunately, too, a ready mode ot identifying any member of the band who might bo captured was soon discovered. On the way south we had represented ourselves as f-oni Fleming county, Ky. This story was still continned The first arrests were made the very same day so close to the train that after tin's story had been told the men were positively traced back to the train, and then all who gave the same siory were known to belong to us.

We expected to die as soon as captured and thenk was a degree of exasperation which rendered the risk of instant shooting or hanging very great. lint there was also a desire for further invest igat ion and discovery which would be cut short by a sudden slaying of the victim, and this operated to bridge over the lirst furious moment of capture, but did not prevent the most learful threats, and in one case —that of l'arrott— a fearful beating. It also led to rigor of chaining and confinement almost unparalleled.

We can only give the very briefest account of these painful incidents, and will gladly hasten toother things.

TIIK UKNKIiAL.

Five were eapturcd the first day seven, including myself, on the next, day, which was Sunday. The sull'erimjs endured even in this brief interval from hunger, labor and suspense were indescribable. Andrews and two companions were taken on Monday six more were captured near the ch.se of the week, having, however, gone no further than I had done the first day. This left only two of the whole party at large, who, by getting a boat and drifting down the Tennessee, got virtually within the I'nion lines, but then going boldly forward in tlio daytime were arrested by a baud of Confederate guerrillas and brought, back some two weeks after leaving the train. This completed the capture of the whole party, and to this terrible pas* had our hopeful enterprise resolved itself! We had been told that to fall into tlie enemy's power was inevitable death, and we liad no reason to doubt it. Nothing in our treatment was of such a nature as to inspire us with hope. We were chained and tied in barbarous fashion. and confined in the most loathsome dungeons, dark, filthy, and often underground. in Dalton, .Marietta and elsewhere. Our food was of the eoarest and most scanty character. We were assured everywhere that we would soon be hung— as soon as they could get us all gathered in at a proper place. Gradually the whole were assembled at Chattanooga, where our conliui-iuent culminated in uniniug-

in,Utile horrors. I wns the tlrst one taken there, having been captured in I.nfuyette, t.'.i., twenty-live miles nwny, the second day out! I will describe somewlmt minutely toy entrance into that terrible place, which may serve us specimen of other prisons we endured in the south. fTo nr. rONTlNl'RDl

FORTY LIVES

S\rUiriCKI

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AT MKADVIM.K, PA.,TO-DAY.

A Trnln on the Now York, PennaylvantuXOhlo Hallway

DunHam iuto

a Double llttHUfri-Kreight With Futul it«fiult».

"'peelni to tho Journal:

Mizauvjllk, Pa., IV,.. 31, 2 p. in.—

Anothej horrible railroad aeeidont must be added on the last day of 1*87to the

list of horrors which mark one of the

most disastrous years in our history in

the way of accidents on sea and land.

I his morning a short distaaeo west of

this elLy a fast passenger and mall train

on the Xe*v York, Pennsylvania & Ohio

Kailroml dashed into a double headed

freight train. The trains were piled to-

ge.her in a promiscuous mass. Tho pns-

seuger train Wan completely demolished

and the loss of lift? Is very heavy. The

iatest reports say forty persons perished

in th" wreek while thenj are many

wounded. All the physicians in Mend-

ville :*nd hundreds of citizens are on tho

ground doing all in their power for the

rebel of the sufferers.

I N* KltSOLIAS KLOOL'KNCK.

A Beautiful ^Tribute to the Virtue* of a Witnuiii lit- id Knowif*I ifilerG irlhood.

l.'ol. liobert J. Ingersoll. the silver tongued orator, at New York a few days since at the funeral of Mrs. ^Ida W. Knowh-s, late of Peoria, delivered tho following touching tribute to her memory:

My Khiknds: "Again wv stand in tho shadow of the great mystery, a shadow a* deep and dark as when the tears of the tirt mother fell upon the pallid face oi her lifeless babe—a mystery that has never yet boon solved. We have met the presence of the sacred dead, to speak a word of praise, of hope, of consolation. Anothej life of hive is now a blessed memory—a lingering strain of music. 'I he loving daughter, the pure and conse.'rated wife, the sincere friend, who with tender faithfulness discharged the duties of life, has reached their journey's end. A braver, a more serene, a more ehivalric spirit, clasping the loved, and bv them clasped, never passed from life to enrich the realms of death. No Held of war ever witnessed greater fortitude, more perfect, smiling courage thun this poor, weak, and helpless woman displav1 upon the bed of pain and death. Her life was gentle, and her death sublime. She loved the good, and all the good loved her. Hut there is this consolntionShe can never suffer more she can ncv«.«r leel again the chill of death never part again fiom tho-.«» she loved. Her heart •an break no more. She has shed her last tear, ami upon h^r stainless brow has set. the wondrous seal of everlasting peaee. When the angels of death—the masked and voiceless—enters the door of hoiiit*. theie come with her all the daughter?? of compassion, and of these jo\v and hope remain forever. You about to lake the deardust home—to the home of her girlhood and to the place thai was once niy home. You will lay her with neighbors that I have loved.and are now at rest. You will lay her where my father sleeps. All ran sav is: Lay her in the earth, and from her fair and unpolluied Ilesh let violel.- spring. I never knew, 1 never met a braver spirit (linn the one that once Inhabited this sileul form of dreamless elav."

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North Dakota never had

I llUulijllUUu Jitter crops than those nuui just harvested. Many op-' portunltles to secure the fine tJivernnient lands leivntly surveyed, near excellent coal fields and ai'jacenl to railroad. Maps and full particulars free upon application to C. H. Wartvn, Gen. Pass. Agt.St, Paui, Minn.

CI V^PPCC Are vim mortgaged, pny11 I A lieavy rent.s or runnlng behind? can you mow to new location? ICxcellent lands, cheap, which will lncren.se In value several fold In live years. Noothersueh opportunities existing. Full particulars free upon application to C. Jf. Warren, Gen. Pass. Agt. St. I'aul, Minn.

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MlniHsota. M«ps and full garding hinds, prices, «tc tlresH, C. II. Warren. (Jen. Paul, Minn.

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WORK FOR ANOTIIMR. or on small salnr? Why continue work- .• ing on a worn-out farm? Wny try to secun* a living from such high- priced or hcaviiy-morrgpged larnis? Wli.v work on rented land? Why not start for yourself? Why not «»ecurp at once some of the lowpriced hut very fertile ond well-located lands adjacent to railroads now to he obtainable by those yoing to Northern Dakota and Minnesota, where you can make a larger profit per acre than on the high priced or worn out land you now oceup.N Why not uo and look the sil uat ion over, and see lor yotirsell, or al least obtain further information, which will be sent free, if you will address Warren, (Jen. Pass,"Agt., Si. Paul, Mis

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Are you going to Paint this year* If so, don't buy a [Mint containing w^ler or txnzinr when for lhe Mine money (or nearly so) you can procure (OITAWH PUKE I'AlVr that Is«»rr*nw* to bean IIONKST, CKNl'INC I.INSELD-OJL PUNT and free from water and benzine. Drmftad UiU brand and lake no otbrr. Merchants handlins it are our agents and nuthorired by us. in writing, to warrant It to wnr ft YEAIIH with 3 C#ATS or 8 YKAHH with 2 CUATS. iur Slides are the Latest Styles used in the Hast now becoming so popui-ir in the West, nnd up witk the tunes Try th:i brand of IIOSfcST PAINT asd you wilt never regret it. This to the wise is suificient

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