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Identifier: daringsufferingh03pitt Title: Daring and suffering: a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 .. Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Pittenger, William, 1840-1904 Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 Publisher: New York, The War Publishing Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: e heartiness withwhich he accepted the secluded Flemingsburg as his new home, James J, Andkrvvs. From a photograph in the pos-, . session of Miss Elvira Layton. together with a kind of pensive - ness and melancholy which were manifest when not actively engaged, all point to some decisive break in his history. Most of the people of Flemingsburg were convinced that Mr. Andrewswas very anxious to make money. Yet this conviction seemed to haveno other basis than his own words, He was not at all penurious, wasstrictly honest, and seemed to have done no more than maintain himselfrespectably. Some months later, an incident occurred which made Mr. Andrewsfeel still more at home in Fleming County. An old gentleman, namedLindsey, who lived some seven or eight miles from Flemingsburg, on theMaysville Turnpike, partially rebuilt his house and employed Mr. Andrewsto do the necessary painting. While thus engaged, he became intimatewith Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey, and they frequently jested with him about

Text Appearing After Image: 1 See Chapter XXI. 56 Daring and Suffering. his growing so old without marrying. He answered that he could find nolady willing to accept him, who would not be extravagant and wasteful ofthe property that he wished to earn. Lindsey rejoined that he knew onewho possessed every desirable quality, without being in the least taintedwith the defect feared. Andrews, still jesting, promised that if introducedto such a model woman, he would at least try to win her. Mr. Lindseywas a sympathizer with the South in the angry controversies that alreadybegan to presage war, while Andrews was as firm on the other side; but

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