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قراءة كتاب Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War.
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Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War.
CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE
CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE:
A HISTORY
OF
SECRET SERVICE
IN THE LATE WAR.
BY
REV. WILLIAM PITTENGER.
Boldly they rode and well;
Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth of hell,
Rode the six hundred.
* * * * * *
"They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of death
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them—
Left of six hundred."
Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
1885.
THE SURVIVING COMRADES
OF THE
CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD EXPEDITION,
AND TO
THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE
SAME ADVENTURE,
This Record of their Daring and Suffering
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
| EXECUTED. | |
| J. J. Andrews, Leader | Citizen of Kentucky. |
| William Campbell | Citizen of Kentucky. |
| George D. Wilson | Co. B, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| Marion A. Ross | Co. A, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| Perry G. Shadrack | Co. K, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| Samuel Slavens | Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| Samuel Robinson | Co. G, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| John Scott | Co. K, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| ESCAPED IN OCTOBER. | |
| W. W. Brown1 (Engineer) | Co. F, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| William Knight2 | Co. E, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| J. R. Porter3 | Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| Mark Wood4 | Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| J. A. Wilson5 | Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| M. J. Hawkins6 | Co. A, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| John Wollam7 | Co. C, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| D. A. Dorsey8 | Co. H, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| EXCHANGED IN MARCH. | |
| Jacob Parrot9 | Co. K, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| Robert Buffum10 | Co. H, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| William Bensinger11 | Co. G, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| William Reddick12 | Co. B, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| E. H. Mason13 | Co. K, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. |
| William Pittenger14 | Co. G, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. |
2 Minnesota.
3 Carlisle, Arkansas.
4 Dead.
5 Hoskins, Wood County, Ohio.
6 Topeka, Kansas.
7 Unknown.
8 Jefferson, Wisconsin.
9 Kenton, Ohio.
10 Dead.
11 McCombs, Hancock County, Ohio.
12 Unknown.
13 Unknown.
14 Woodbury, N. J. A member of the New Jersey Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
PREFACE.
War has a secret as well as a public story. Marches and battles are open to the popular gaze; but enterprises of another class are in their very nature secret, and these are scarcely less important and often much more interesting than the former. The work of spies and scouts, the enterprises that reach beyond the lines of an army for the purpose of surprise, the councils of officers, the intrigues by means of which great results often flow from apparently insignificant causes, and all the experiences of hospitals and prisons,—these usually fill but a small place on the historian's page, though they are often of romantic interest, and not unfrequently decide the course and fate of armies. The enterprise described in these pages possesses all the unity of a drama, from the first plunge of the actors into the heart of the enemy's country, through all their adventures and changing fortunes, until the few survivors stood once more under the old flag! No single story of the war combines so many of the hidden, underground elements of the contest against rebellion as this. Disguise and secrecy, the perils of a forlorn hope, the exultation of almost miraculous success, the sufferings of prisoners, and the gloom of despair are all mingled in a varied and instructive war-picture.
In telling the story all fictitious embellishments have been rejected. No pains have been spared to ascertain the exact truth, and the reader will find names, dates, and localities so fully given that it will be easy to verify the prominent features of the account.
In narrating those events which fell under his own eye, the writer has waived all scruples of delicacy, and used the first personal pronoun. This is far more simple and direct, while an opposite course would have savored of affectation.
This is not a revision or new edition of the little volume published by the present writer during