Identifier: daringsufferingh01pitt (find matches)
Title: Daring and suffering: a history of the great railroad adventure
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Pittenger, William, 1840-1904
Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Daughaday
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, Mr. Turner. Yes, rather pleasant, responded the latter,looking as if he could not understand what Frywas out there for. We feel like taking a little walk this eve-ning, continued the captain. The astonishment of the jailor now knew nobounds. What! How! Where ! he ex-claimed, in broken ejaculations. Frys countenance grew darker as he claspedthe old man in his arms, and said: a We have stayed as long as we can stand it,and we now are going to leave, and let out theother prisoners; so give up the keys, and makeno noise, or it will be the worse for you! Turner tightened his grasp on the keys des-perately, and exclaimed, You cant do that!then commenced in a loud tone, Gruar—whenmy hand closed across his mouth and stifled theincipient call for help. It was not our intention to hurt the old man,for he had been kind to us; but it was neces-sary to keep him quiet. He possessed greatstrength, and struggled very hard, managing tobite my finger; but we held him fast, and easily to s ? ^p fcfc
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THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE. 215 wrestled the keys from him. BufFum was soonat work on the locks of the doors. Meantime, our companions had quietly de-scended the stairway, and burst out on theguards. There were seven of them, but theywere so much taken by surprise as to be inca-pable of resistance. Our boys divided into twoparties, one for the front and the other for theback door. The latter was completely success-ful, capturing the guard, and taking their gunsfrom them without the least alarm being given. The attack at the front door was made withequal skill and bravery, and the guards whostood near were at once secured. Unfortunatelythere were two in the yard gate, which happenedto be open. As soon as these saw the chargemade, they, without waiting to attempt resist-ance, ran through the gate, shrieking, Help!murder! in tones that aroused the wholeneighborhood. There were troops near athand, who instantly rushed to the rescue. Our boys saw their peril, and knew that thepart of our

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