Daring and Suffering: a History of the Great Railroad Adventure

Excerpt: ...attained a good rate of speed, and then, just as the last car swung by, he dashed from them, and jumped aboard! There was no telegraph station at Madison, and he escaped. At this the Confederates were very much enraged, and would permit no more visiting; but we felt ample consolation in the certainty that our condition would be at once reported to our officers, and every effort made for our release. CHAPTER IX. Return to Chattanooga