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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: uick voices an-swered, Well attend to theguard, Mr. Turner. Well, you can go then, hesaid trembling, while his faceseemed to grow even whiter, forour looks were not pleasant. Well, give us the keys, then, and youll not be hurt, said Fry, whileBuffum reached out his hand to take them. The action seemed to rouse Turner like an electric spark,cant do that, he said, and then sprang back, and opened his mouth inthe cry, 44 Guar— when my hand closed over his mouth, and stifled theincipient alarm. It was scarcely fair, but in a moment the three of uswere upon him; Fry had clasped him round the body and arms in nogentle embrace, Buffum had wrested away his keys, and was off liishot and unlocking the doors as if his life depended upon it, while myhand had effectually stopped all noise. He bit my finger with all hismight, but the teeth were not sharp enough to do any real injury, and theother bands were gliding down stairs. Buffum unlocked all the doors easilv till he came to the last one, in

Text Appearing After Image: i8 Daring and Suffering. which were the four Union soldiers and the rebel deserter. Not one inthe other rooms dared come forth ! But the deserter was intenselyanxious. He encouraged Buffum saying Dont hurry, it will come in amoment. Finally it yielded, and the poor fellow flung himself out likea shot from a cannon, and was soon in the front of the flight; but thefour others remained inside. One of the points about which there is a little difference o\ opinionamong us is whether the attack on the guard below was not a few secondstoo quick—a most natural error, under the circumstances. \l all thedoors could have been first unlocked, and all who were willing to- go havebeen ready, the jailor bound and gagged, and the whole number, led by those who had been appointedfor the work, had burst upon theguard together, it is possiblethat the victory would have beenmore decisive, and the numberof escapes larger. But Knightthought, as he was gliding cau-tiously down the stairway, thatthere was

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