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: ms. The distance fromwhich these sounds came indicated thatthe pursuers were beyond us, and that ourbest chance was in hiding and allowingthem to pass still farther ahead. Thenext day we were fortunate enough todiscover some luscious wild grapes, whichwe devoured with the greatest relish.Our mouths afterwards were very sore,and the grapes may possibly have beenthe cause of the injury. The same day we were surprised by some citizens with shot-guns, but outran them and escaped. Brown, Mason, and Knight left us, the latter being sick. The deserter continuedwith us a day longer. lie then wished to visit a house for food, but we, though veryhungry, did not think it advisable, and parted with all good wishes. I have heard that hegot safely to Washington, D. C, but, returning to his home in Northern Georgia, wasarrested and executed as a deserter from the Confederate army, into which he had beenconscripted at first. On the fourth day out we met two of our pursuers, who were apparently coming

Text Appearing After Image: D. A. Dorsey. From a war-time photograph. The Loyal Mountaineers. 335 back discouraged, but easily eluded them by hiding under some bushes. We now beganto travel more rapidly, hiding by day and continuing on our way by night, directed bythe stars, which Hawkins understood very well. On the eighth day out we came to the ferry of the Chattahoochee River, far to thenortheast of Atlanta. We took rails from a neighboring fence, and began to build a raft,when we. observed a lighted torch approaching the opposite side of the river. When itcame nearer we saw that the party accompanying it were negroes, two in number, withfour dogs. Hawkins, who had spent some years in the South, and understood the dis-position of the negroes, felt disposed to trust them. Accordingly, we asked them to ferryus over, which they readily did, we giving them a little tobacco we had, and which wecould not use because of our sore mouths. They professed themselves Unionists, and wetold them that we were Union soldiers

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