The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11
HE stories of incidents of the ' civil war written by Confeder

HE stories of incidents of the T civil war written by confeder-
 ate soldiers, which have been appearing in The Sunday Age-Herald for some time, have attracted wide spread interest.
 The following account of the An drews raid, one of the most graphic and tragic incidents of the war, was sent to A. c. Oxford by w. c. Dodson of Atlanta, and i. is published by per mission of both On account of it's length it will appear in three sections. and it is believed that it will be found as intensely interesting as any of the stories heretofore published. To myself and other old residents of At lanta, the Andrews raid is rather an old story, as it has been much discussed and many versions of it have ben published Only recently, what purported to be a True History" of the affair was printed in the Sunny South" written by my old friend, Dr. R. J. Massey, and in the same paper of December ', appears another account by MT. J. P. Speir, assuming to correct some inaccuracies in the pre- vious publication.
 Neither of these articles cantain a com plete history of the adventure, and in matters of detail both authors have fallen into some errors.
 Fortunately, two of the main actors, not to say heroes, of the drama are still in life, and are old and respected citizens of Atlanta. I allude to Messrs. w. A. Fuller and Anthony Murphy, the for mer conductor of the train a part of which was stolen, and the latter then foreman of machine and motive power of the road on which the road was made. These are the only two men who were in the chase from start to finish-a chase which commenced in a foot race" of three men after a locomotive under full steam and ended nearly one hundred miles away with two of the same men on another engine, running for a part of the distance at the rate of a mile a min ute-this being the third locomotive they had employed in the pursuit.
 I have had frequent talks with these gentlemen as to what occurred have be- fore me as l write the published state ment of Fuller and the written statement of Murphy, which has never been print ed, and some correspondence between him and one of the raiders discussing points on which their recollections differed. l also have read book entitled Capturing a Locomotive" written by Rev. Wm. Pettnger one of the men captured on the engine General"
 It is only on account of my having ac- cess to these different sources of informa- tion that consent to comply with your request, and not that l assume to possess any superior capacity for telling the true story of what must always be considered one of the most daring and dramatic ad- ventures of the civil war.
 It is not generally known that there were two expeditions undertaken by An drews both with practically the same ob- ject in view, viz: Burning of the bridges on the Western & Atlantic or State" road between Atlanta and Chattanooga. and thus crippling the confedeates' most important line of communication.
 The First Raid.
 consisted of eight men who were, as in the second one, to make their way dis guised as citizens, into the 'confedeate lines and rendezvous at Atlanta on given date Here they were to be met by Andrews. who, pretending to be . con- federate spy and having passes from prominent officials, could go and come through the lines at bis pleasure He