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: A History of Secret Service in the Late War.

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the rebellion. Daring and Suffering, like a number of similar sketches published in newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, was a hasty narrative of personal adventure, and made no pretence of completeness. Capturing a Locomotive is broader and more historic; a large amount of valuable material is now employed for the first time; and the story is approached in an entirely different manner. No paragraph of the old book is copied into the new.

Woodbury, New Jersey January, 1882.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Secret Military Expedition 9
II. Midnight Consultation 27
III. Companions and Incidents 36
IV. A Locomotive and Train Captured 65
V. Unforeseen Hindrances 75
VI. A Terrible Railroad Chase 93
VII. A Night in the Woods 120
VIII. In the Enemy's Power 136
IX. Other Captures 153
X. A Horrible Prison 170
XI. Lights and Shadows of Prison 182
XII. The First Tragedy 197
XIII. A Confederate Court-Martial 205
XIV. The Crowning Horror 221
XV. Prison Religion 228
XVI. Liberty or Death? 244
XVII. Romantic Escapes 262
XVIII. From Atlanta to the Gulf 274
XIX. From Atlanta to Richmond 293
XX. Libby and Castle Thunder 308
XXI. Sickness and Liberty 326
 
APPENDIX:
No. I. Extracts from the Report of Judge-Advocate-General Holt 341
      to the Secretaryof War
No. II. A Southern Estimate 345
No. III. A Frenchman's View Of The Chattanooga 350

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