{"product_id":"2940012773685","title":"CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE","description":"PREFACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWar has a secret as well as a public story. Marches and battles are open\u003cbr\u003eto the popular gaze; but enterprises of another class are in their very\u003cbr\u003enature secret, and these are scarcely less important and often much more\u003cbr\u003einteresting than the former. The work of spies and scouts, the\u003cbr\u003eenterprises that reach beyond the lines of an army for the purpose of\u003cbr\u003esurprise, the councils of officers, the intrigues by means of which\u003cbr\u003egreat results often flow from apparently insignificant causes, and all\u003cbr\u003ethe experiences of hospitals and prisons,--these usually fill but a\u003cbr\u003esmall place on the historian's page, though they are often of romantic\u003cbr\u003einterest, and not unfrequently decide the course and fate of armies. The\u003cbr\u003eenterprise described in these pages possesses all the unity of a drama,\u003cbr\u003efrom the first plunge of the actors into the heart of the enemy's\u003cbr\u003ecountry, through all their adventures and changing fortunes, until the\u003cbr\u003efew survivors stood once more under the old flag! No single story of the\u003cbr\u003ewar combines so many of the hidden, underground elements of the contest\u003cbr\u003eagainst rebellion as this. Disguise and secrecy, the perils of a forlorn\u003cbr\u003ehope, the exultation of almost miraculous success, the sufferings of\u003cbr\u003eprisoners, and the gloom of despair are all mingled in a varied and\u003cbr\u003einstructive war-picture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn telling the story all fictitious embellishments have been rejected.\u003cbr\u003eNo pains have been spared to ascertain the exact truth, and the reader\u003cbr\u003ewill find names, dates, and localities so fully given that it will be\u003cbr\u003eeasy to verify the prominent features of the account.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn narrating those events which fell under his own eye, the writer has\u003cbr\u003ewaived all scruples of delicacy, and used the first personal pronoun.\u003cbr\u003eThis is far more simple and direct, while an opposite course would have\u003cbr\u003esavored of affectation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a revision or new edition of the little volume published by\u003cbr\u003ethe present writer during the rebellion. DARING AND SUFFERING, like a\u003cbr\u003enumber of similar sketches published in newspapers, magazines, and\u003cbr\u003epamphlets, was a hasty narrative of personal adventure, and made no\u003cbr\u003epretence of completeness. CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE is broader and more\u003cbr\u003ehistoric; a large amount of valuable material is now employed for the\u003cbr\u003efirst time; and the story is approached in an entirely different manner.\u003cbr\u003eNo paragraph of the old book is copied into the new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    WOODBURY, NEW JERSEY January, 1882.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER                                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e      I.--A SECRET MILITARY EXPEDITION                          9\u003cbr\u003e     II.--MIDNIGHT CONSULTATION                                27\u003cbr\u003e    III.--COMPANIONS AND INCIDENTS                             36\u003cbr\u003e     IV.--A LOCOMOTIVE AND TRAIN CAPTURED                      65\u003cbr\u003e      V.--UNFORESEEN HINDRANCES                                75\u003cbr\u003e     VI.--A TERRIBLE RAILROAD CHASE                            93\u003cbr\u003e    VII.--A NIGHT IN THE WOODS                                120\u003cbr\u003e   VIII.--IN THE ENEMY'S POWER                                136\u003cbr\u003e     IX.--OTHER CAPTURES                                      153\u003cbr\u003e      X.--A HORRIBLE PRISON                                   170\u003cbr\u003e     XI.--LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF PRISON                        182\u003cbr\u003e    XII.--THE FIRST TRAGEDY                                   197\u003cbr\u003e   XIII.--A CONFEDERATE COURT-MARTIAL                         205\u003cbr\u003e    XIV.--THE CROWNING HORROR                                 221\u003cbr\u003e     XV.--PRISON RELIGION                                     228\u003cbr\u003e    XVI.--LIBERTY OR DEATH?                                   244\u003cbr\u003e   XVII.--ROMANTIC ESCAPES                                    262\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII.--FROM ATLANTA TO THE GULF                            274\u003cbr\u003e    XIX.--FROM ATLANTA TO RICHMOND                            293\u003cbr\u003e     XX.--LIBBY AND CASTLE THUNDER                            308\u003cbr\u003e    XXI.--SICKNESS AND LIBERTY                                326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  APPENDIX:\u003cbr\u003e  No. I.--EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL\u003cbr\u003e            HOLT TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR                      341\u003cbr\u003e  No. II.--A SOUTHERN ESTIMATE                                345\u003cbr\u003e  No. III.--A FRENCHMAN'S VIEW OF THE CHATTANOOGA\u003cbr\u003e              RAILROAD EXPEDITION                             350\u003cbr\u003e  No. IV.--OLD SCENES REVISITED                               352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                             PAGE\u003cbr\u003e   1. The Chase                                   _Frontispiece._\u003cbr\u003e   2. GENERAL O. M. MITCHEL                                    11\u003cbr\u003e   3. MIDNIGHT CONSULTATION                                    32\u003cbr\u003e   4. WILLIAM PITTENGER                                        42\u003cbr\u003e   5. MAP OF CHATTANOOGA AND ITS R","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171552116976,"sku":"2940012773685","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012773685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}