The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-04-24

the point OF renut n
vous agreed upon, where % of the
"a arrived safely. Here they took
passage, without attracting observa
ton, for Marietta, which they reach
cd at 12 o'clock on the night Of the
I1th OF April. The following morn
ing they took the cars lack again
toward Chattanooga, aud at a place
called Big Shanty, while the engin.
eer and passengers were breakfast
ing, they detached the locomotive
and three box care from the train,
and started at full speed for Chat a.
nooga.
They were now upon the field Of
the perllous operations proposed by
the expedition, but denly encoun.
tered unforeseen obstacles. Accor.
ding to the schedule Of the road, OF
which Mr.. Andrews had possessed
himself, they should have met but a
single train on that day, whereas
thoy met three, two Of them being
engaged on extraordinary service
About an hour was lost in waiting
to allow these trains to pass, which
enabled their pureuers to press close
ly upon them. They removed rails,
threw out distractions on the road 4,
and cut the wires from time to
time, and attained. when in motion,
. speed Of sixty miles an hour; but
the time lost could not be rogained.
After having run about one hundred
miles, they found their supply OF
wood, water and oil, exhausted
while the rebel locomotive which
had been chasing them was in sight
Under these circumstances they had
no alternative but to abandon their
cars and fly to the woods, which
they did, under the orders of Mr..
Andrews, each one endeavoring to
save himself as best he might.
Tho expedition thus failed from
causes which reflected. neither upon
the genius by which it was planned
nor upon the intrepidity and discre.
ton OF those engaged in conducting
it, But Tor the accident Of meeting
the extra which could no
have been anticipsted--the move
ment would have been a complete
success, and the whole aspect OF thu
war in the South and Sourhwes
would have been at ouce changed
The expedition i,self, in the daring
OF it's conception, had the wildnes,
of a romance; while in the gigantic
and overwhelming results, which i
sough. and was likely TO accomplish
1t vas absolutely sublime. The es
innate OF its character entertained il
the Sonth will lie found fully ex
dressed in an editorial from til,
S,u'hcin COntederacy, prominen
rebel journal, under date OF the 1911
OF April, and which ia appended II
and adopted as part oil Mr.. Pitten
gers deposition The editor says
"The mind and heart shrink bac
i appalled, at the bare contemplate
OF the awful consequences whic
would have followed the success c
e this one act. We doubt If the vic
tory Of Manassas or Corinth wer
worth as much to us as the frustrf
ton of this grand coup d etat.
is not by any means certain that th
annihilstion OF Bcsuregard's whol
army at Corinth would be so fatal
blow to us as would have been tn
burning OF the bridges at that tim
by these men,"
So soon as those composing I'll
!. expedition had left the cars, an
, and dispersed themselves in IL
Al woods, the population Of the countr
d round turned out in their pursni
q employing for this purpose t dog
A which are trained to hunt down Il
"a fugitive slaves OF the South. TT
Al whole % were captnred. Anon
,. them was private Jacob Parrot
; company X, 33i regiment O. V.
|. When arrested he was, without al
# form OF trial, taken possession OF |
(. a military officer and four soldier
,e who stripped him, bent him over
: stone, and, while two pistols we
n held over his head. Lieutenant
rebel uniform inflicted, with a ray
re- hide, upward OF y hundred lashes (
!; his bare back. This was done
m the presence Of an iniuristed crow
a who clamored for bis blood, and q
ID tually brought rope with which
OF hang him. The ohj4ct OF this pr
ct longed scourgiDg was to force ii
u young man to confess to them &
II, objects OF the expedition and {
a. names OF his comrades, especial
that Of the engineer who had n
I'd the train. Their purpose was,
,d doubt not only to take the life
ve the latter, if identified, but to do
all with every circumstance o. humi
,o alton and torture which they cor
nd devise. Three times, in tie progrs
% of this horrible hogging, it was gu
cd pended, and Mr.. Parrot was ask
on il lie would not con 'ess; but stead
he and firmly, to the last, he relus
n. all disclosures, and it was not ill
~ tormentors were weary of their br
on tai work that the task of subdui
ad their victim was abandoned