The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-29

lhALD, k hlDA l DEOE1i squads of three or four and made their way through the Confederate lines 10 Ma rietta, Ga, to meet Andrews.
 Nineteen of the men. two of them get ting left, boarded a Western and Atiahtie train at Marietta. Their real identity was disguised. The train consisted of three empty box cars besides the passenger coaches. The nineteen spies for the red eral forces immediately scattered theil- selves throughout the train.
 When Big Shanty which is seven mics north of Marietta was reached the nag man cried out; Big Shanty! Iwehl. minutes for breakfast" Every member or the train crew. most of the passengers save the spies, together with Captalh Andrews. alighted
 Knight to uncouple, the train back or the empty freight cars thus providing quaf- ters for his party without alarming the passengers. Then. as If he were eohduetor of the train, Andrews loaded the empty cars with his men. This done, Andrews, William Knight, Wilson and Brown, all Federalists. mounted the engine and rolled away.
 Enqne Bell Rang.
 One precaution. however, was omitted. He failed to cut in twain the bell cord. When the engine pulled away with the box cars the cord snapped and the en- zine bell rang aloud. But they were or!
 Along the way they tore up raus and cut telegraph wires.
 According to Andrews calculations, there was only one train likely to give him trouble-the southbound local freight which, he knew, might be met at any point between Big Shanty and Kingston. He placed a red flag to indicate that an other train was following. This was done to assist him in explanations that might be demanded because he was running out of schedule time.
 This train belonging to the Confeder- ates, in the hands of enemies, pulled Moons Station where tools were taken from workmen with which to tear up rails. The train passel through Acworth, Altoona, Etowah, Resaca, Cartersv1he' Calhoun, Tunnel Hill and finally Ring gold, where they were thwarted and where the General" was recaptured.
 Captain Fuller Gives Chase.
 As soon as the bell rang while Captain Fuller and his men were eating, he looked from the window and saw the General moving away. Jumping from his chair he pursued the enemy on foot for two and one-half miles, accompanied by An- thony Murphy, master mechanic of the Western and Atlantic railroad, now living In Atlanta, and one of the few surviving members of this crew, and Jeff Cain, en- gineer. Beforehand he dispatched William Kendrick on horseback to Marietta to mo- tify the Atlanta office.
 Reaching Moons Station on foot, Captain Fuller met Jack Bond. foreman of road gang, from whom he learned that the fu- gitive train had passed there, carrying about twenty-five people.
 Chased on Handcar.
 Captain Fuller obtaining an old-time handcar, propelled by poles. ran this car back to gather up Murphy and Cain, whom he had outsprinted and left behind Then they started on the run after the spies-Fuller with a handcar and the Yankees with one of the best engines in service. The Yankees were running at the rate of twenty miles an hour.
 Captain Andrews and his guide sue ceeded in passing every road agent by telling them that he and his men were Confederates and had orders to carry some powder to General Beauregard, who was stationed to the north. At every place where it was possible to do so wires were cut down to prevent eommuniea- ton and the rails were torn up to prevent pursuit.
 Captain Fuller, with his poor vehicle, but with every pulse of his heart beat ing rapidly with patriotism. made super human efforts to capture the engine.
 Chase on the Texas"
 After he had gone several miles up the road he secured another engine, Texas which had passed Andrews and his raid CTS, and continued pursuit with this
 Captain Fuller and his men boarded the Texas" and went on at a more equal pursuit of the spies. For miles he and the enemy ran on, but the Texas as if magic, gained gradually. Captain An drews two or three times stopped to get wood for the General" and to scatter destruction in his path. These were fa- tai mistakes.
 When Ringgold was reached Captain Andrews was compelled to stop and re- plenish his engine with wood and water. It had become exhausted and refused to go farther without a good supply of fuel After restlessy and excitedly trying to make the General" move on, he and his party were thunderstruck by a shrill whistle from the Texas" as 1t bounded around a curve in full view of Captain Andrews and his men. Not before this time did Captain Andrews actually know that he was being pursued
 As last resort. Andrews and his raiders conceived the idea of reversing the General" and causing it to meet the oncoming Texas" but the latter engine still refused to move
 All hope was gone. Captain Andrews and his men jumped from their engine and fled to the woods. They almost reached the Federal lines. but all were captured in various places, including the two who were left at Marietta. Eight were executed in Atlanta, including Cap tain Andrews, eight escaped from prison and six were exchanged. The eight were hanged near Oakland cemetery and Cap tain Andrews met his fate off Peachtree road about two miles out from the central section of Atlanta.
 At Ringgold a monument has been erected to mark the spot of the recapture of the General" On the monument is a tablet giving data as to the attempt to steal the engine.
 Another monument was erected in the city of Chattanooga in memory of the re- capture of the General"
 Randall W. McBryde who has written the ''Historic General" classes Andrews as hero who will live in history. An drews would have followed school teach ing if he could have obtained position but. failing, entered the ranks of the Union army. By authority of congress each of the survivors of the famous raid