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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
In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
NEW SOMERSET, Jefferson Co., O., October, 1863.
J. J. ANDREWS, _Leader_, Citizen of Kentucky. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Citizen of Kentucky. GEORGE D. WILSON, Co. B, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. MARION A. ROSS, Co. A, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. PERRY G. SHADRACK, Co. K, Second Reg't Ohio Vols. SAMUEL SLAVENS, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. SAMUEL ROBINSON, Co. G, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. JOHN SCOTT, Co. K, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols.
W. W. BROWN, Co. F, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. WILLIAM KNIGHT, Co. E, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. J. R. PORTER, Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. MARK WOOD, Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. J. A. WILSON, Co. C, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. M. J. HAWKINS, Co. A, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. JOHN WOLLAM, Co. C, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. D. A. DORSEY, Co. H, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols.
JACOB PARROTT, Co. K, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. ROBERT BUFFUM, Co. H, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. WILLIAM BENSINGER, Co. G, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. WILLIAM REDDICK, Co. B, Thirty-third Reg't Ohio Vols. E. H. MASON, Co. K, Twenty-first Reg't Ohio Vols. WILLIAM PITTENGER, Co. G, Second Reg't Ohio Vols.
The following work is a narration of facts. My only desire is to give a clear and connected record of what will ever be regarded as a most remarkable episode in the history of the Great Rebellion.