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Identifier: daringsufferingh03pitt Title: Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Pittenger, William, 1840-1904 Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 Publisher: New York, The War Publishing Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: which he residedin Ohio and Illinois until 1877,since which nothing definite hasbeen heard of him by the remain-der of the party. Robert Buffum had a sorrow-ful history. He was as brave a man as ever lived, and had been promi-nent in the Kansas struggles which preceded the great civil conflict. Afterexchange he received his commission and served with honor till the closeof the war. But unfortunately he had formed the habit of hard drinking,and when in liquor was uncontrollable. His mind, also, was a gooddeal unsettled by reason of the terrible hardships he had endured, andthis grew worse instead of better. Before he reached home, after beingmustered out of service, he was arrested in Kentucky for some offensethe nature of which I never clearly knew, and very summarily condemnedto the State Penitentiary. Receiving a letter from him in which he pro-fessed innocence of any grave fault, while admitting that he had beendrinking heavily, I secured the signatures of Judge Holt and Secretary

Text Appearing After Image: W. W. Brown. From a recent photograph. Subsequent History of the Railroad Adventurers. Stanton to a petition for his pardon. This Gov. Bramlette—probablythinking the man had been hardly dealt with—very promptly granted.When released, Buffum returned*to Ohio, signed the temperance pledge,and lived a perfectly sober life for some months. During this timehe engaged in the sale of the first edition of Daring and Suffering, andmet with such success that he was not only able to maintain his wifeand three children, but also topay for a home. But there wereso many persons who wished to treat that he yielded to tempt-ation and was soon in trouble. Ina heated discussion in Minerva,Ohio, a man used violent lan-guage against President Lincoln,declaring that he ought to behung. Buffums latent insanityblazed out in a moment, and pro-curing a revolver he shot the manin the face. For this he was im-prisoned in Canton, Ohio, but thewounded man recovering, andleaving the State without appear-ing ag

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