Leaving from Macon, he wrote “Our journey was disastrous…we progressed at the rate of four miles per hour. At one of our stoppages all hands turned out and pushed our car and engine. After dinner the stoppages became so frequent….that I asked to walk and walked…about three miles. They stopped, as there was no supply, to chop the wood by the roadside to keep the fire of the engine alight. The man said…the engine would not make steam…At last, however, the many choppings brought us to a station where we got wood and water and proceeded tolerably well, reaching Griffin.”
