Great Locomotive Chase

When

12 Apr 1862

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

34.02° N, 84.62° W

Description

1862 Raid during the American Civil War

1862 raid during the American Civil War

The Great Locomotive Chase 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 steam locomotive, The General, and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railroad (W&A) line from Atlanta to Chattanooga as the…

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• Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Great Locomotive Chase (Andrews' Raid) – Union volunteers steal Confederate steam railroad locomotive The General (which will still exist in the 21st century)…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Andrews-Überfall kapern Soldaten der Nordstaaten einen Eisenbahnzug der Western and Atlantic Railroad”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Гражданская война в США: Великая паровозная гонка”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “美國南北戰爭期間北軍於喬治亞州及田納西州發起的一場不成功的突擊，由詹姆斯·安祖魯(James J. Andrews)帶領，同行24人，全隊遭南軍處決”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page