The Southern Museum

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The Southern Museum

The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, 2829 Cherokee Street, Kennesow GA 30144, USA. Phone +1 770 4272117, fax+1 770421 8485, Web site www.southernmuseum.org

On 12 April 1862 Major James J. Andrews and twenty-one Union Army soldiers stole a Western & Atlantic Railroad passenger train, powered by the General, from Kennesaw (then known as Big Shanty), Georgia, a few dozen miles north of Atlanta. The train's stranded and understandably annoyed conductor, William Fuller, used a series of locomotives, including the Texas, to chase the raiders, who were eventually captured by Confederate soldiers. Millions of people are familiar with …