Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-26

then making good time on the down
grade behind us. He planned to reach
Etowah and commander the 'Yona,' an
other old engine. This he was success
good time, although he was delayed by
the crossties we had piled on the
track. and again when his hand car
was ditched by a rail which had been
removed.
"Stil! running slowly to avoid col
lisions and with no bridges destroy ed
to justify the risks we were taking
the General held on northward. while
the pursuit gradually overhauled us.
"At Adairsville, the pursuing party
obtained another engine, the Texas be-
cause they were stopped by another
break we had made in the tracks. At
Calhoun, Capt. Whitsitt of the Con-
federate army. waiting with his COM
mand to entrain for a southern point,
Joined Fuller and Murphy, strengthen
ing the pursuers with the addition of
ly were they overtaking us that Capt.
Whitsitt later told me he counciled
slower running for fear they would
literally run us down.
AS it became apparent that the sec
ond attempt to destroy communica-
ton behind Chattanooga was destined
to be as unsuccessful as the first, An
drews began cutting loose our box
cars car, s, and at last just this side of
along on fast diminishing fuel gave a
gasp and expired. For ninety miles
we had run through the enemy's coun-
try. Yet because no preparation had
been made for materials and tools
with which to accomplish our pu--
pose the only damage we had done
was the removal of a few rails and the
wrecking of the telegraph. And the
Andrews raid was over.
Parry and Robertson were captured
near Ringgold that night. The reporter
was taken early the next morning near
Lafayette. Here and there, by twos
and threes, all of the raiders had been
gathered In. including Andrews HIM
self. I. with a party including George
D. Wilson, Robert Buffam and William
Bensinger. was taken at noon the next
day about nine miles past Ringgold.
We didn't know where we were going,
travelling in circles through the night.
and finally took shelter in a clump of
trees.
-Four men with three hound dogs
round us. We were lying down. AMI
became separated. The stories we told,
ana which did not agree, caused our
downfall
Il was threatened with death unless
l confessed. I was young-only TWEEN
ty-three years old-and I will never
Aoi SCI the scene. Inc man VINO tOlu
me would be shot faced me with a
shotgun: Near him stood a man with
a coil of rope. In front of me squatted
one. of the yellow hounds. How 1
envied that dog!
But when I refused to confess 1
found that the man had only been
bluffing, and. bound with the bedtick-
ing suspenders which our captors
wore. we were marched off, prisoners.
During the next few weeks the fate
of the captured raiders was one not
to be envied. From Ringgold they
were taken to Marietta, linked together
with trace chains, and after that they
were moved to Chattanooga. 1t was
on the way there that a mob threat
ened their lives, which were probably
only saved by the Intervention of
number of southern women, who, GO
ing to the depot where the Federals'
waited a train. remained there until
all danger was past.
One of these women, moved by the
picture which the men presented. gave
Dorsey a rose and told him her namaS
but the ensuing six months which he
spent in "Swem's Hole" particularly
noisome dungeon some twelve feet
square beneath the floor Of the Chat