The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-09-30
CHAPTER NSIII.

CHAPTER NSI1L
How Other Members of the Expedition
Fared-Stories of Brown, Mason, and
knight, Porter and Wallam-The End OF
II ALL
A S THE READER WHO HAS
"a followed my story thus far will
u have an interest in knowing the
fate of all our party Of Raid
ers who broke jail, | will as briefly
and as correctly as possible speak Of
each. OF our party of 90 who had
landed Mt Marietta, eight, as will be re-
membered, had been hung, leaving Il
who were in the Atlanta Prison at the
time of the break. OF these, eight made
good their escape, and, after untold hard
ships and suffering, reached the Federal
lines Their names are as follows:
NJ. j. Hawkins, ID. A. Dorsey, ".
w. Brown, William ]. Knight, John
Wollam, John II. Porter, and Mark
Wood, deceased. These, with myself,
include all who made good their escape.
Brown, Knight, and Mason kept to-
eether at the time of their fight from
the prison, and from a very interesting
account Of his escape, sent me by Mr..
knight since / began the publication Of
these sketches and who will be remem-
bered az one Of our engineers, | make
an extract, as follows:
WILLIAM J. KNIGHTS ACCOUNT.
We broke jail Oct. 16, 1862, and
scampered for the woods. ". w
Brown, L. H. Mason, and myself, all
Of the Dist Ohio, were together The
fst night out Mason took sick, and we
did not get far. but kept well hidden.
We were three days within nine miles Of
Atlanta. On the third night Mason was
SO bad that we were compelled to 20 to
house with him, and began to despair
of making good our escape; but he told
us to leave him and save ourselves.
"Just as we had finished hasty
meal in the kitchen three men came in
at the front door to arrest us. They
asked US if We were not some OF the
prisoners who broke jail in Atlanta We
told them we were. They said they had
come to take US back, and that there
was no use trying TO escape, as all the
roads and hlidges we're guarded.
Brown was mad in an instant, and
ripped out a very blunt reply. We
.prang out Of the back door and ran
round the end Of the house and down a
fence IN the direction Of some woods.
They ran out Of the front door with
their sho:guns and bawled out, Halt
halt! as we were leaving them Oh a
2:40 run. They straddled their horses
and galloped out on by-road from the
louise to the main road, while the man
where we had stayed embossed his hounds,
and they were soon on our trail in full
cry.
"Wc had changed our course to battle
The horsenlen, for there was hill TO 90
down and another to ascend before We
got across the plantation and to the
woods beyond The men could not see
us, but the cry of the dogs told oul
course, and before we had reached the
woods the whole pack were closing OH US
The field was fail Of loose stones, and
we hastily chose the best place we could
and engaged in savage combat with
The dogs. in which we were victoriou.
crippling and driving away the whole
pack in short order, after which W.
started again on full run.
1--WE could by this time see the horse
men coming round to head us off w,
changed our course and threw them OF
again. The hounds followed at ion.
distance, and by their bowling indicated
our course, but did not come near enough
10 modest us.
MAKING FOR cons COUNTRY
eve kept see-sawing and lacking f
svoid the horsenen, who We're doing
heir best to head us of. until, at last
We came to a little creek, in which ",
w.ded co PIE of hours, ard in thi
way caLssd th. dogs 10 lose US ira
say we reached stone Mountain, Ii
miles east of Atlanta. After that ",
trase,ed nights. going due northward