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Identifier: daringsufferingh03pitt Title: Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Pittenger, William, 1840-1904 Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 Publisher: New York, The War Publishing Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: . They talked a little time about the weather and the war, and webegan to edge toward the door. They asked us if we had not broken jail in Atlanta ? Wetold them that we had. (Was this strange candor desperation? or was it because therewere only three questioners?) Then they advised us to surrender, saying that the fer-ries and roads were all guarded, and that part of our comrades had been shot down in thewoods, and that they had come to take us. Brown said : No, we wont ; now you see ifwe do. We jumped out of the back door, and made for the neighboring wood, jumpingthe fence and running like two deer ; they ran out at the front door and round the end ofthe house, calling, Halt, halt, but we did not halt. We had no choice but to abandonMason, who was taken back to Atlanta the same day. We undertook to cut across theroad to get in behind them, as we feared to cross the open plantation ; but we failed andhad to take the risk. The old fellow with whom we had stayed turned his hounds loose

Text Appearing After Image: Elihu H. Mason. From a war-time photograph. In Cave and Mountain. 329 and put them on our trail. We had a big hill to go down and then one to go up before wecould reach the woods. We put in our best licks, and could hear the hounds comingtheir best. We got down the hill and across the flat, and were climbing the hill, when wesaw that the hounds were about to overtake us, and we prepared for battle by stopping ina stony place and getting a pile of rocks ready. We waited for them to come close up,and took them at short range. We rolled them down the hill ; and then, as the Southern-ers used to say after a battle, We won the victory, but we evacuated the ground : for by

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