Identifier: civilwarthroughc00elso (find matches)
Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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A LOOOMOTn-E THATHANGED EIGHT MEN AS SPIES
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In April, 1862, J. J.Andrews, a citizen ofKentucky and a spyGeneral Buells employment,proposed seizing a locomotive onthe Western and Atlantic Railroad atsome point below Chattanooga and runningit back to that place, cutting telegraph wiresand burning bridges on the way. General O. MMitchel authorized the plan and twenty-two men volunteered to carry it out. On the morning of April 12th, the train they were onstopped at Big Shanty station for breakfast. The bridge-burners (who were in citizens clothes) detached the locomotive and threebox-cars and started at full speed for Chattanooga, but after a run of about a hundred miles their fuel was exhausted and their pur-suers were in sight. The whole party was captured. Andrews was condemned as a spy and hanged at Atlanta, July 7th. The otherswere confined at Chattanooga, Knoxville, and afterward at Atlanta, where seven were executed as spies. Of the fourteen survivors,eight escaped from prison; and of these, six eventually reached the Union

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