In April 1862 a band of Union soldiers and civilians led by James J. Andrews slipped into Georgia, seized a locomotive and tried to wreck the railroad behind them. William Pittenger, one of the raiders, tells of the midnight planning, the desperate chase, capture, a horrible prison, the hanging of Andrews and seven comrades, and the escape of the survivors.
The classic first-hand account of the Great Locomotive Chase, the episode that later inspired Buster Keaton’s The General. Download the free EPUB.