CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE
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A RAILROAD CHASE. Frontispiece.
CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE: A HISTORY OF SECRET SERVICE IN THE LATE WAR.
BY REV. WILLIAM PITTENGER.
"Storm'd at with shot and shell, 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.
WASHINGTON: THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. 1885.
Copyright, 1881, by Rev. William Pittenger.
TO 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.
NAMES OF THE ADVENTURERS.
EXECUTED.
J. J. Andrews, LeaderCitizen of Kentucky.
William CampbellCitizen of Kentucky.
George D. WilsonCo. B, Second Reg't Ohio Vols.
Marion A. RossCo. A, Second Reg't Ohio Vols.
Perry G. ShadrackCo. K, Second Reg't Ohio Vols.
Samuel SlavensThirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
Samuel RobinsonCo. G, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
John ScottCo. K, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
ESCAPED IN OCTOBER.
W. W. Brown1 (Engineer)Co. F, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
William Knight2Co. E, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
J. R. Porter3Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
Mark Wood4Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
J. A. Wilson5Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
M. J. Hawkins6Co. A, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
John Wollam7Co. C, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
D. A. Dorsey8Co. H, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
EXCHANGED IN MARCH.
Jacob Parrot9Co. K, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
Robert Buffum10Co. H, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
William Bensinger11Co. G, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
William Reddick12Co. B, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
E. H. Mason13Co. K, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
William Pittenger14Co. G, Second Reg't Ohio Vols.
RESIDENCES IN 1881.
1 Perrysburg, Ohio. 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.