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2 tender was turned around and pushed to the engine and coupled up and a coal car attached. Some six or eight Confederate soldiers volunteered in the chase and took passage in the coal car. From Etowah to Kingston, Capt. Ful ler ran at the rate of SIXTY MILES PER HOUR and found the fugitives had passed by. A large number of freight trains had pulled by the station so as to let the fugitives out at the further end of the track. The agent informed Captain Fuller that the leader of the fugitives claimed to be a Confederate officer who had impressed the train at Big Shanty, and the three cars were loaded with fixed ammunition for General Beaure gard at Corinth. Captain Fuller, he said, was behind with the regular pas senger train. He insisted that the agent should let him have a switch key and instruct the conductors of the down trains to pull by and get out of his way, as it was important for him to go on to Chattanooga and Corinth as rapidly as possible. So authoritative was he in his de mand, and so plausible in speech, that the agent, a patriotic man, believing his story, carried out his request, and so the fugitives, by the finesse of their leader, passed by one great obstruction. The freight trains were gathered here, and so heavy to move, that had Cap tain Fuller stopped to get them out of his way to pass, his delay would have been too long. Finding he could not pass with old Yonah, he abandoned it. The Home engine was on the Y, head ed for Chattanooga, with one car at tached. lie immediately took posses sion of it and continued the chase with all who would volunteer to go with him. lie had not proceeded far be fore he found cross-ties on the track every 200 or 300 yards. After passing Kingston the fugitives punched out the end of the rear car which enabled them to drop out ties without slacking up. Captain Fuller was forced to lose time in stopping to remove these obstructions. Laboring under these disadvantages the pursuers redoubled their energy and proceeded to Adairsville. When he reached a point four miles from Adairsville he found sixty yards of track torn up, and SET OUT ON FOOT, calling on his men to follow. When he had gone half a mile, he looked back and saw none but Anthony Murphy following him. He made two miles as QUICK AS HE COULD RUN, and met the express freight. Having a gun and knowing the signal, the en gineer recognized Capt. Fuller and stopped the train immediately. Know ing that Mr. Murphy was only a short distance behind, the train was detained until he came up. He then took a position at the rear end of the train, twenty car lengths from the engine, and ST AI IT ED 1> AC K WARD in the direction of Adairsville, without taking time to explain matters to the engineer or conductor. When he got within 200 yards of the switch at Adairsville, Capt. Fuller jumped oil the train, ran ahead and changed the switch, so as to throw the ears on the side track. He accom plished this, changed the switch to the main track, and jumped on the engine which had been uncoupled from the train. This feat was accomplished so quickly that the train and engine RAN SIDE BY SIDE for fully 300 yards. He now hadotily* the engine with the following crew: A. Murphy ; Peter Bracken, the en gineer : Fleming Cox, the fireman, and Alonzo Martin, wood passer. re- sumed the chase, making Calhoun, 10 miles distant in 12 minutes. As he approached Calhoun, Capt. Fuller re cognized the telegraph operator from Dalton, a lad twelve years old. The operator recognized Capt. Fuller, and as the engine passed by at the rate of FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR, grasped Capt. Fuller’s hand, held out to him, and was safely landed on the engine. The operator having discov ered that the wire had been cut, made his way down to Calhoun, looking for the break. 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( <„ , ’T S t \ I / j'^~- RoiliusA I 'X X iscir / bm Y rna 4*<-^\ r V x \ / C . 2 i PowderlSpringsh} «u>attle July (1,1564. .aAI/> r 1 ’ J A Nebo < i .Xk ? 5Gi mon< o CL S J'-XX X\i:atlVv«'y<'liaHal;< l >d i etyßQjiilY / 5.1501. S _ 7X H a.r a\l s o rut ■** > -i^ a _ Ov , l ßr x wnsvllk x3 iU •-■/rd r ®|BuchSnan .i . Vs n r I -nrcmonk , X-. | —• iJ Lurie K A : 7 /GEORCjA-L? -'cWgl asvi Ile .?/ / / x-T l\D O, U Gig A s ..JMU, /J -• Epliesusio I / K vx/^ a »d Town s. s| k $ S lIATTHEWS, NORTHRUP a co., .. X C A R?R O L L I VBrighQStar S ZzZcampbell | F U\L I/O O) N\f JiMUtsvillo '^Bur'riro^v^ 8 ’ X ? dX, C ChaiklHill ?aV 1 ■'"‘'T no Conn a uVsV°' i wrote out the following telegram to Gen. Leadbetter, then in command at Chattanooga: “My train was captured this A. m. ■ at Big Shanty, evidently by Feder al soldiers in disguise. They are mak ing rapidly for Chattanooga, possibly with an idea of burning the railroad bridges in their rear. If Ido not cap ture them in the meantime, see that they do not pass Chattanooga.” Capt. Fuller’s- desire now-Mas to reach Dalton and send the telegram before the fugitives could cut the wire beyond Dalton. Two miles beyond Calhoun, THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. THE FUGITIVES WERE SIGHTED FOR THE FIRST TIME, and from their movements they were evidently greatly excited; they de tached one of their freight cars and left it at the point where they were dis covered. They had partially taken up a rail, but that or the car did not detain Capt. Fuller. He coupled the car to the engine without stopping, got on top of the freight car and gave signals to the engineer by which he could run; as the car in front obscured his view. Two and a half miles farth er Capt. Fuller came across another freight car which the fugitives had de tached. As before he coupled this on with- out stopping, and pushed on to R - saca, where he switched the two cars off on the siding. Again he started out with an engine only. Two miles north of Resaca, while standing on the rear end of the tender, he discovered in a short curve a F rail diagonally ACROSS THE TRACK and being too close to stop, the engine went over it at the rate of 55 milesper hour. Aftertliis, until they reached Dal ton, only occasionally were obstructions met with. At Dalton he dropped the telegraph operator with instructions to put through the telegram at all hazards, and continued the chase. Two miles beyond he overtook the fugitives TEARING UP THE TRACK, in plain view of Col. Jesse A. Glenn’s regiment camped near by. They cut the telegraph wire just after the Dal ton operator had flashed Capt. Ful ler’s telegram over it, preventing him receiving the usual acknowledgement of ‘O. K.’ from Chattanooga. The fugitives resumed their flight, and never perhaps did two engines with five feet ten inch wheels make faster time than the pursued and the pursuer. The fugitives had the advantage in the fact that the ‘General’ a ‘Rogers’ was headed for Chattanooga, while the ‘Texas,’ a ‘Danforth A Cook’ eng’ne was running backwards. The tifu < n miles to Rinegold and three miles b - yond was made in less time than Capt. Fuller ever made the same distance in twenty-two years’ experience as a c<>ii ductor. Halfway between Ringgod and Graysville he got within one quar ter of a mile of the fugitives, who, b<- ing so closely pressed, set their only re maining FREIGHT CAR ON FIRE with a view of cutting it loose on the next bridge. The smoke of the ‘Gen eral’ plainly evidenced that she was fagging. The fugitives abandoned the