Cobb-Pike County GaArchives News.....Preservation of an Historical Locomotive September 20 1901
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net October 30, 2003, 5:05 am

The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia

Preservation of an Historical Locomotive

The famous engine, “General,” which was used by Capt. James J. Andrews and his 
party of raiders in an attempt to burn the bridges on the Western and Atlantic 
Railway on April 12, 1862, has been sent by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. 
Louis Railroad to be set up in the Union Depot at Chattanooga as a monument to 
the heroes of that daring raid, says the Railroad Review. It will be remembered 
that the engine and several boxcars were stolen from a passenger train while 
the crew was at breakfast at Big Shanty. The raiders were closely pursued by 
the conductor and a party of confederate soldiers in the switching engine. 
The “General” was finally abandoned and the bridge burning scheme has to be 
given up. All of the party, numbering some twenty-two were captured and eight 
were executed as spies. The survivors built a monument in memory of the affair 
in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga

(Transcribed 10/29/03 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
The General is now housed at the new Southern Museum of Civil War and 
Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia.

<http://www.southernmuseum.org/>

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