In one of the most daring raids during the Civil War, Union saboteurs infiltrated North Georgia, seized a locomotive and sped toward Tennessee. They destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph wires along ...

Q: What’s the story behind The General locomotive in Kennesaw? A: The General is best known for its role in the Great Locomotive Chase of the Civil War, also known as Andrews' Raid. The steam ...

WASHINGTON — It was a bright and sunny summer day in Atlanta, Georgia as seven Union Soldiers stood on a raised platform with nooses around their necks, preparing to give their lives for the America ...

Thirteen Medal of Honor recipients traced the route of the Civil War's Great Locomotive Chase. The Great Locomotive Chase led to the awarding of the very first Medals of Honor in 1863. The group ...

The men were among a team of Union troops and spies who carried out an audacious, but ultimately failed, mission known as the Great Locomotive Chase. Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two Ohio Civil War soldiers, who played crucial roles in one of the earliest covert military operations that became the subject of a classic Hollywood silent film, finally ...

On April 12, 1862, a group of Union soldiers from Ohio regiments stole a locomotive in Georgia and rode it north, destroying track and telegraph lines in their wake. The plan, masterminded by Kentucky ...

It took 162 years for a man who enlisted in Warren County to fight for the Union in the Civil War to receive the nation’s highest military honor for a mission so audacious it inspired Hollywood films.