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.
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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 |

