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The accident caused him to drop his boots, which he afterward sorely needed. The guard was instantly aroused, but Andrews dropped to the ground, darted to the fence, and was over before he could be prevented. John Wollam followed, and even while suspended in the air by the blankets, was fired upon.
Eight escaped. Wood and Wilson traveled southward, and, after passing through a series of the most startling adventures, that recall the old Indian tales we have all listened to in the winter evenings, they succeeded in reaching the Gulf, where they were taken on board a United States ship, and brought around to Washington. Porter and Wollam started westward. Their journey was a most perilous one.
He was engaged to be married to a young lady of his own adopted State the same month in which he suffered death on the scaffold! It is now time to return to Wollam, whom we left outside of the jail-fence, trying to get away from Chattanooga. He ran down to the river side, and seeing no way of crossing himself, hit on the brilliant ruse of making them believe that he was across.
Down they came, and I, stationing myself at the foot of the ladder, spoke something indifferently to them, and heard my name called in return. It was Andrews, Wollam, and Ross, who gave me their hands in silent condolence of our common misery. Still others were brought, I do not now remember whether that evening, or in the morning.
Return to Chattanooga Caution of Rebels Unchain Ourselves Mock Trials The Judge Singing One Kindness Projected Escape Loitering Comrades A Gleam of Hope Sad Parting Knoxville Prison Inmates Brownlow Awful Cruelty Andrews Condemned to Death Escapes with Wollam Fearful Perils Swimming the River Hiding on an Island Found by Children Yields to His Fate Horrible Death Wollam's Stratagem On the River Passes a Gun Boat Final Capture.
We, who were at Knoxville, read of the recapture of Andrews with the most poignant regret, though we knew not yet that he had received the sentence of death. Of Wollam we heard nothing. We were well supplied with papers here, as there were plenty of Union people who ministered to our wants. One day we received a paper containing an account of the execution of Andrews. It was awful news to us.
Only a day or two before, we had seen in an Atlanta paper, obtained, as usual, through a contraband source, an article clipped from the "Cincinnati Commercial," giving notice of the arrival of Porter and Wollam at Corinth, in a very wretched and famished condition. This was most gratifying to us, but of the others we had, as yet, received no reliable information.
I had extensive opportunities for observing them, as the room next to us was appropriated to the safe-keeping of negroes, and I never yet saw one who did not cherish an ardent desire for freedom, and wish and long for the time when the triumph of the national forces would place the coveted boon within his grasp. One morning our jailor came to our room, and asked us if we knew John Wollam.
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