Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War.

Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well; Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell, Rode the six hundred. They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of death Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them— Left of six hundred. Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade .
WASHINGTON: THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. 1885.
Copyright, 1881, by Rev. William Pittenger.
TO THE SURVIVING COMRADES OF THE CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD EXPEDITION, AND TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE SAME ADVENTURE, This Record of their Daring and Suffering IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
NAMES OF THE ADVENTURERS.
RESIDENCES IN 1881.
1 Perrysburg, Ohio. 2 Minnesota. 3 Carlisle, Arkansas. 4 Dead. 5 Hoskins, Wood County, Ohio. 6 Topeka, Kansas. 7 Unknown. 8 Jefferson, Wisconsin. 9 Kenton, Ohio. 10 Dead. 11 McCombs, Hancock County, Ohio. 12 Unknown. 13 Unknown. 14 Woodbury, N. J. A member of the New Jersey Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

War has a secret as well as a public story. Marches and battles are open to the popular gaze; but enterprises of another class are in their very nature secret, and these are scarcely less important and often much more interesting than the former. The work of spies and scouts, the enterprises that reach beyond the lines of an army for the purpose of surprise, the councils of officers, the intrigues by means of which great results often flow from apparently insignificant causes, and all the experiences of hospitals and prisons,—these usually fill but a small place on the historian's page, though they are often of romantic interest, and not unfrequently decide the course and fate of armies. The enterprise described in these pages possesses all the unity of a drama, from the first plunge of the actors into the heart of the enemy's country, through all their adventures and changing fortunes, until the few survivors stood once more under the old flag! No single story of the war combines so many of the hidden, underground elements of the contest against rebellion as this. Disguise and secrecy, the perils of a forlorn hope, the exultation of almost miraculous success, the sufferings of prisoners, and the gloom of despair are all mingled in a varied and instructive war-picture.