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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: n—for I took it for granted that,lawyer-like, he had looked over the evidence in the case and made up hismind about it—as upon general topics, such as our impressions of theSouth and the Union men in it, and of our hope and feeling about the war.I was especially struck by his asking us how we had liked Gen. Mitchelas a commander; and when we spoke of him with unstinted enthusiasmhe seemed greatly pleased and said, Thats the way all his men talk 1 Supplement, Chapter VI. 412 Daring and Suffering. about him. He told us that he had been aware of our expedition at thetime, but had no accurate information of the fate of the party. His im-pression was that all had perished at first. On the escape of the eight inOctober he had made official inquiries of the Confederate governmentabout us, but had been answered that they had no information of the hang-ing of any of the party. (The papers which were forwarded to Rich-mond in response to inquiries much earlier, show this statement to be ab-

Text Appearing After Image: Face of Medal. Back of Medal. £Fac simile of medals of honor given to surviving members of the Andrews raid and to the families of those who perished. Natural size]. solutely incorrect). He had then threatened retaliation in case any morewere put to death, and had endeavored to effect our exchange; he wasvery glad indeed that these efforts had succeeded, and surprised us bysaying, You will find yourselves great heroes when you get home;then added many kind words about the high appreciation of our servicesby the government, which, coming from the Secretary of War of a greatnation, to private soldiers, was most flattering. Stanton seemed espe-cially pleased with Parrot.. He was the youngest of our number and of Reporting to Secretary Stanton and President Lincoln. 413 very quiet and simple manners. Stanton gave him the offer of a com-plete education if he would accept it—I understood him to mean atWest Point. Parrot answered that while the war lasted he did not wishto go to school; b

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