Daring and Suffering

About this eBook

Author

Pittenger, William, 1840-1904

Title

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure

Credits

Produced by Wolfgang Menges, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20509

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20509

Release Date

February 2, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DARING AND SUFFERING: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE.
2. 2.BY LIEUT. WILLIAM PITTENGER, ONE OF THE ADVENTURERS. — WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY REV. ALEXANDER CLARK. — "The expedition, in the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a romance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming results it sought and was likely to accomplish, it was absolutely sublime."— Official Report of Hon. Judge Holt to the Secretary of War. — "It was all the deepest laid scheme, and on the grandest scale, that ever emanated from the brains of any number of Yankees combined."— Atlanta "Southern Confederacy" of April 15th, 1862. — PHILADELPHIA: J. W. DAUGHADAY, PUBLISHER, 1308 CHESTNUT STREET. 1863. — Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by J. W. DAUGHADAY, In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. — TO R. T. TRALL, M. D., EDITOR OF THE "HERALD OF HEALTH," AND Leader of the Hygienic Reform, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED AS A TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE, BY THE AUTHOR. New Somerset , Jefferson Co., O., October, 1863.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION. — DARING AND SUFFERING.
6. 6.CHAPTER I.
7. 7.CHAPTER II.
8. 8.CHAPTER III.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE GREAT RAILROAD CHASE! — FULL PARTICULARS!!
11. 11.CHAPTER VI.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX.
15. 15.CHAPTER X.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — The End. — Footnotes

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