The Greencastle Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 December 1887 — Page 4

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By WILLIAM PITTENOER, A 11KMBEU OF THK EXPEDITION. [OopyriRhtPrt, 18ST. by War Piiblishinc Co.. N. Y„ ami published by urruugemeut with them.]

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Fortunately Andrews was just at hand \and promptly replied, “I have taken this train by government authority to run ammunition through to Gen. Beauregard,

uttLiu must have it at once.’'

f we.yed his jiand toward the car in i h wo shut up (representing the vilt i b, aie 1 they inquired no further in iai direction, but simply asked when the Rssenger train would be along. Andrews

^^\^)onded indifferently that he could not — „ ... „,„, v exactly, but supposed it would not be I est guard declared that only

great while, as tin ■ were getting out 1. ether train when he 1 ft Atlanta. With L:Vi coh! comfort they were obliged to be ^ntented, and Andrews, leaving the on me in care of ^iis liuve coni'adcs, went

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^■i'li' of the depot next ns, and asked. |at is the matter with the local

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the road machine shops, Mr. Anthony Murphy, sat down to the breakfast table not far apart. Before they had tasted a mouthful, however, the sound of escaping steam, the loud whir of the wheels on the track and the outcry that rose in a moment from guards and camp, brought them and all the breakfasters to their feet. By this time the locomotive had started, and Fuller and Murphy, with loud exclamations about the rolibery of the train, rustled pell mell with everybody else out on the platform, the passengers who had been uncoupled and left on the road not being behind others in their complaints and uproar. The whole camp also was in a turmoil. A single glance around showed Fuller that there was no chance for help there; and ! being a man of quick thought his mind fastened on an idea—utterly wrong as it | proved—hut which had the merit of putting him vigorously to work The near-

four men

were engaged In the capture—he had only seen those that mounted the engine—and others corroborated him. Fuller remembered the conscripts he had been warned to watch for, and nt once the thought flashed across his mind, “Some of those men, one of whom happened to know enough of an engine to pull open the

■fbanKSa^rpi up ul d"i. \\"uM WO nr three if,” Fuller old Yonah pch, we can i in fifteen be some By that ^^^Tre, and the Hiaul them at wiT^gct plenty of do not find the

it that it is not hcref” lie was ’ throttle, have jumped on my train to get

telegraph dispatch for Fuller, him to wait nt this point for its indication that it was not way. This was the only Infor\yhsafed <tp us by the manage<1 during the whole of that

7 or <£".trned to his engine, and “ ''walked about on the end FT ^ vb£>near by duringthc tedious hL. ».e- He did not seek to

wit h any one, but questions asked, ^d and a .little pr one running

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I side they will leave the engine and run j into the mounWins. I must follow us

fast ns possible and try to get it back before I get very badly out of time.” The presence of Mr. Anthony Murphy' that morning was purely accidental. He was going to examine an engine at Allutoona reported out of order. As an officer of high authority on the road, commanding all engineers and firemen, knowing all the engines and everything about the road perfectly, his presence at that time wai most unfortunate for us. He was a man of great coolness and good judgment. His first action was far-sighted. He sent Mr. \\ illiam Kendrick on horseback to Marietta to notify the superintendent at Atlanta by wire. Mr. Kendrick arrived in time to hold a freight train there till orders were flashed back to drop all cars but one, run up to Big Shanty, load on soldiers and pursue with all speed. This was the first train in chase. A message

was also sent from Marietta to Richmond,/

hut no result followed that. My opinjoft is that AndrcwirJw^'i souk-' wjt(f ar-

wine between Cl it-

,'iihI Knoxville. Which was the In which the message could one around and got on the line of ■stern amt Atlantic railroad ahead

lose been the only measures of [wise and judicious as they were would have been easy. But and his ardent temperaanother course. He and Cain. “Come on imptly followed and rted at a dead run up ■clacle of three men after a flying engine, to cat eh it. instantly d humor, and with laughter! |he fate of these rjsluin us nt the , Sire and ob[icedless lo in-

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which They we] on the was thei bring thl hours fru rontinueil ready ati take her, minutes extra tral bother tin* chances are that \vt that place, where we help." “But if we Yonah ready?” was asked. “Why, then, so far as 1 can see, we are done,” was the reply. They did not stop to speculate, hut were all this time pressing on at the very highest speed possible. It might well he that one minute would make all the difference between finding thr Yonah and her starting back to the iron works, miles away. But there was a sharp interruption just before they came in sight of Etowah, and while they were straining every nerve and looking forward to see if the smoke of the engine was yet visible. We had taken up a rail, and there was a crash, n sense of falling, and they found themselves lying, hand ear and all, in a heap at the bottom of a ditch! If the embankment had been as high at that place ns at many others on the road, all our danger would have ended, for no other party that day originated anything against us; but the ground was almost level; and except a few bruises, they were unhurt, and at once placed their car on the track again. While d< :ng this, they were greatly stimulated and hurried by noticing the smoke and steam of the Yonah, which they could see across the long bend on their side of Etowah river. If they could only make the distance, a little more than a mile, before the -engine went back on the branch! With all their power, like men working for their lives, they drove forward. They were noon to soon. The engine was on the main track still, and the tender was just being turned on the half moon turntable, preparatory to starting back. But the people there saw the furiously driven hand car, with the shouting, excited men on it, and at once suspended their work and gathered around to know the cause of these frantic ges tures. Fuller had not much breath left to spend in talking, but managed to say that the Yankees had taken Ids train, and that lie wanted their engine, and allot tliem with their guns to follow in chase. He, with every man of his | i ty, was well known and t! no stopping to question. Their \. . appearance, si reaming with sweat and almost exhausted, bore witness to the urgency of their haste. A score of strong arms whirled back the tender on the tuni table, and pushed it and an empty coal car up to the engine, while u t,umber of Confederate soldiers who were waiting to take the next train southward to Big Shanty, piled in also. Now they were off with a strong, well armed party, and the chase was on more equal terms. “The Yonah," in the words of Fuller, “was not a strong engine, but had large wheels, was as active as a cat, and with a light load would run very fast.” She was now just in the service adapted to her, and her drivers called out all her powers. As they flew over the ground, it was a refreshing contrast to the exertions on foot or hand car. The thirteen miles were made in sixteen minutes. If the extra trains at Kingston only entangled us as long as Fuller hoped, the whole affair would soon be brought to a final issue! He did not dread the light that was likely to follow, for our number was only reported even yet by those who had seen us working as eight, while he had some twenty well armed men with him at this stage of the journey; and there were H*e crews of tlie four or live trains at Kingston. Indeed. Fuller and Murphy might lx* excused if they rather feared that “the Yankees” might be captured before they arrived.

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ig everyth! id had put a large to get the rolling goods, out of the 'iked him for the inhim to go a long way that tlie extra would to get by. adding, “I cry tirst minute that is ■onductor made no Oh1, “What will you do Huntsville?” Andrews not believe the story. be fool enough to run f lie Is, Beauregard will mf of the road. At any orders.” The train was and tlie tedious proved.

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"tiSl’ED. ijcnts are dragging their | ns the three trains 1 J'lieks at Kingston, it ■ite the experiences of 1 T'vas unceremoniously fc Big Shanty. We .mmotion and j cure, and in j kd: but we time n^ yjlis V

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runners showed that li exhausted; and as s reminded—for with

oad men they clung to Strew discouraged; but ‘second wind” was excel ved both help and re-

Lent. They came to Moon’s jHre two miles from the place of Tnd have never been able to make —plausible conjecture of the time led in this first stage of the jourit is certain that it was just ns straining muscles and iron could

afipfiiiiikc it.

^BPlere they learned from the track laying party that some of their tools had been ‘‘Borrowed.” and a short distance beyond some ties placed on the track and the telegraph cut. This was our first halt, and the track had been obstructed that a train coming from Atlanta might lie hindered. The pursuers here found a hand car—not one of the elaborate machine cars, which may be driven at great speed, but what Fuller termed a “pole car.” It

was at once pressed into service and gave a welcome rest. Fuller ran it back a little way and picked up his companions, who were behind, then drove forward as fast as the construction of the car would permit. Pushing with a long pole in flat boat fashion, quite rapid time could be made on the level and on down grades, while on the steep up grades two would

Jump off and push at n full run. At Ackworth they got a re-enforcement

of two men, Mr. Smith and Mr. Stockely, and hurried forward. All Idea that they were following conscripts had now been given up. They had learned that tlie captors had been seen oiling their engine, ns if preparing for a long run, and seeming to perfectly understand their work. Fuller and Murphy were now able, for the first time, to consult about their plans. We w ere running on regular time—a circumstance that they had noted in the reports received from the different stations—and Abut time was only sixtoiVj) miles per hour,

CHAPTER VII.

TERRIBLE SfSPEXSF..

But where were we while this train was fljing toward us? Lying still on the side track at tlie left hand of Kingston station, Mhose agonies of suspense and intense alternations of hope and fear which were harder to bear than all the exertions of Fuller and his companions! The local freight train came as previously narrated,

^^^^buikI had drawn down the road to let the ^^^^^extm follow it, and still give us room to

laul out above. Long and tedious was waiting. But when we almost dcs1 tlie extra came. But alas! on this also, was a red ling! On being mned ns to the meaning of another the conductor said that there wen piiy ears and too great a load for one *. and that another section was made ^ul would he along shortly. The delay for^hese two trains had already been little less than an hour: and here was a third train still blocking the road before us! How Andrews wished that he had taken tlie risk of running out in tlie face of the first extra and had tried to make, at least, the station above! We could easily have succeeded. But now, in the absence of some telegraphic message—and no report was made to that office, while Andrews hardly thought it prudent to telegraph for instructions!—it womd be madness to run out between the two sections of a belated train. It was hotter to wait, even if that entailed the risk of a light. For tins possibility Andrews made ready;

he said to Knight;

“Go hack and tell the boys, without attrurting attention, that we have to wait for a train that is behind time, and for them to he ready to jump at tlie signal,"if needed, and light.” » Knight sauntered carelessly along down the train, just as if he was tired to death with waiting and did not know what to do with himself: and leaning against our car, without turning his head or eyes toward ns, said in a low tone which wo

heard perfectly:

“Roys, we have to wait for a train that is a little behind time, and the folks around arc getting mighty uneasy and suspicions. He ready to jump out. if yon are called, and let them have it hot and

fast."

We did not know how many of the “uneasy folks” there might be about; and so unbearable had become the suspense of being shut up in that dark car, and hearing the sound t>f voices outside, without being able to distinguish tlie words or know what was going on, that a command lo spring out and begin a deadly strife would have been welcomed ns a relief, without much regard to numbers. We said we were ready; we had been ready at any time the last hour!. Still we carefully examined the priming of every revolver, and saw that reserve nmmuni-

Cotfld any situation 1« imagined by poet or novelist more trying than that of this carload of Union soldvrs shut up in the

midst of Confederate trains!

But we were not cal’ed upon to quiet tlie “uneasiness” outside,[which was fully as great as Knight liad described, in any such summary manner. Andrews played his part with surpassing skill. The people around, and especially the old switch tender, begun to grumble something alxmt being sure that all was not right. A good many questions were asked us to why Fuller, with the regular train, was not along by this time, and why the superintendent of tlie road at Atlanta had not sent notice of the powder train. Andrews answered each suggested question very briefly and plausibly, but without appearing at all anxious about their opinion; grumbled a little about the bad management of a road that would allow its track to be blocked at a time like this, and gave accountsof himself in the campof Beauregard with an air soconfldent and truthful that no one ventured to question him. I think there was only one tiling, aside from tlie dangerous delay, which he really dreaded. He kept very near the telegraph office, and, without seeming to do so, closely watched the operator. The attempt to telegraph any kind of a message up the line would have probably brought

on an immediate collision.

Brown relates a curious little episode as occurring here. He noticed a man who watched Andrews for a short time, and then, when no one else was near, stepped close to him and handed him a large and seemingly well filled envelope. Andrews smiled and placed it in his vest pooket. Brown intended to ask about it, but more pressing business put it out of his mind. Probably this was nn incident of Andrews’ contraband trade, and the package contained an order for goods, with the money

to pay for them.

Fuller and his party were now not many miles away, and were making more rapid time toward us than hail ever been made on that road before. But we knew nothing of that—supposed that we were still an hour ahead of any pursuit that could be imagined. We had been at this place one hour and live minutes! It seemed to those shut up in the box car nearer half a ilay! and when the whistle of a train was heard, which fortunately for us was tirst from tlie north—not the pursuing train from the south—it was about as welcome as the boom of Mitchel’s cannon, with " Inch wo expected to be greeted in the evening when our work was done. This last extra came up to the platform as the others had done, and was at once ordered by Andrews to draw on down the road that we might have room to go out. The conductor obeyed without hesitation, and this obstruction was removed. It only remained to adjust the switch so that we might again get on the main track. Tills Andrews directed the old switch tender to do, but he had been getting in a worse and worse humor for tlie whole of the last hour; he had hung up his keys, anti now roughly declared that he would not take them down again until Andrews showed him by what authority he was ordering everybotly about as if he owned the whole road! Wo who were shut up in tlie box car heard tlie loud and angry voice, and supposed that the time for us to act had conic; yet we waited for our leader’s command as we remembered how he had counseled us against being too precipitate. But he only laughed softly as if the anger of the old man amused him, and saying, “I have no more time to waste with you,” he walked into tlie station, to the place where he had seen tlie keys put up, and taking them down, went quietly and swiftly out and made the change himself. The tender’s wrath knew no bounds at. tills; he stormed, declared he would have Andrews arrested, would report him, and many other things. Andrews then waved his hand to the engineer, and as our locomotive came promptly up he stepped on board, and we glided out on the main

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