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raph--Tear up the Track--Unexpected Obstacle--Running a Powder Train to Beauregard--Red Flag--Dropping Cross-Ties--Battering out Spikes--Immense Exertion of Strength--Pursuing Backward--Terrible Chase--Attempt to Wreck the Enemy's Train--Fearful Speed--Bold Plan. 57-67 CHAPTER V. Consternation along the Route--Wood and Water--Attempt to Fire the Train--Partial Failure--Message sent to Chattanooga--Terrific Preparations--Abandon the Train--A Capital Error--In the Woods--A Thrilling Account of the Chase from the Atlanta "_Southern Confederacy_." 68-90 CHAPTER VI. Stupendous "Man Hunt"--My Own Adventures--Playing Acrobat--Perilous Crossing of a River--Hunger--The Bloodhounds--Flying for Life--No Sun or Star to Guide me--Traveling in a Circle--Nearing Chattanooga--Lost in Deadened Timber--Glimpse of the Moon--Fatigue produces Phantoms--Dreadful Storm--I Sleep and enter Fairy Land--Glorious Visions--Reality--A Picket--Romance Faded--Horrible Situation--Day Dawn--No Relief. 91-105 CHAPTER VII. Sabbath--Continuous Rain--Press Onward--Observed--Arrested--Curious Examination--Equivocating for Life--Plans Foiled by Unexpected News--Plundered--Jail--Terrible Reflections--New and Hopeful Resolve--Unwelcome Visitors--Vigilance Committee Disappointed--Ordered to Chattanooga--A Mob--Chained to the Carriage--Escort--The Journey--Musings--Arrival--Another Mob--Benevolent Gentleman(?)--General Leadbetter--Andrews. 106-126 CHAPTER VIII. Negro Prison--Swims, the Jailor--Horrible Dungeon--Black Hole of Calcutta--Suffocation--Union Prisoners--Slave Catching--Our Party Reunited--Breakfast Lowered by Rope--Hunger--Counseling--Fiendish Barbarity--Chained in the Dungeon--Andrews tried as a Spy and Traitor--Sweet, but Stolen News--Removed from Dungeon--Pure Air and Sunlight--Attacked by a Mob--"A Friend"--Madison--Daring Adventure and Narrow Escape. 127-147 CHAPTER IX. Return to Chattanooga--Caution of Rebels--Unchain Ourselves--Mock Trials--The Judge--Singing--One Kindness--Projected Escape--Loitering Comrades--A Gleam of Hope--Sad Parting--Knoxville--Prison Inmates--Brownlow--Awful Cruelty--Andrews Condemned to Death--Escapes with Wollam--Fearful Perils--Swimming the River--Hiding on an Island--Found by Children--Yields to His
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