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William R. Smith

William R. Smith 4-4-0 locomotive, used for a short portion of the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase

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The Yonah

Yonah was a type 4-4-0 steam locomotive that participated in the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War. Before the Civil War Built in 1848 by Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey,[2] the Yonah was the third 4-4-0 locomotive purchased by the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Very little is known about the […]

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William Allen Fuller

William Allen Fuller (April 15, 1836 – December 28, 1905) was a conductor on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the American Civil War era. He was most noted for his role in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase, a daring sabotage mission and raid conducted by soldiers of the Union Army in northern Georgia. Fuller’s […]

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The General

Western & Atlantic Railroad #3 General is a 4-4-0 “American” type steam locomotive built in 1855 by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey for the Western & Atlantic Railroad, best known as the engine stolen by Union spies in the Great Locomotive Chase, an attempt to cripple the Confederate rail network during […]

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The Texas

Summary Western & Atlantic Railroad #49 “Texas” is a 4-4-0 “American” type steam locomotive built in 1856 for the Western & Atlantic Railroad by Danforth, Cooke & Co., best known as the principal pursuit engine in the Great Locomotive Chase, chasing the General after the latter was stolen by Union saboteurs in an attempt to […]

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Sherman’s neckties

Summary Sherman’s neckties were a railway-destruction tactic used in the American Civil War. Named after Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army, Sherman’s neckties were railway rails destroyed by heating them until they were malleable and twisting them into loops resembling neckties, often around trees. Since the Confederacy had limited supplies of iron, […]

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Great Locomotive Chase

Summary The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews’ Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train, The General, and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible […]

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