The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
Famous Old Engine General. '


 The engine General" the famous To- comotive which played such an important part in the civil war. has been sent to Chattanooga by the Nashville. Chatta- nooga and St. Louis Railway and given a prominent place in the Union Depot there where it will remain as a per- manent monument to American svalor.
 On the morning of April F. 1862. Capt.
 ger train of the Western aud Atlantic
 Railroad. the train being pulled by the
 engine General" Wne1 the train
 reat he'd Marietta. q party of strangers.
 train and paid their fare to different points. They claimed to be refugees from
 the Yankee lines going to joint the Con-
 federate army. They were in reality
 frcm silrs Brigade. Mitchels Tinted
 States Army. and were under the com-
 mand of Capt. James J. Andrews.
 The passenger traih stopped It Big
 of the passengers and crew left the train. Tf.e passengers had taken their seats
 at the table with Captain Fuller at the
 head of the table facing window.
 of the train. He glanced up and saw
 some strangers get on the engine in an excited mannec and pull out rapidly. He
 turned 10 his engineer, Jeff Cain. and Western and Atlantic shops. and said:
 Some one who has no right to do so has gone off with our train" All three arose and hurried out of the house, reaching the railroad track just in time to see the engine pass out of sight around a curve. They immediately realized what the whole matter meant and took steps to thwart the purp1ss of the raiders. An drews and bis men intended to burn all the bridges on the line of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and thus cut ofr
 the Confederate Army from its base of su~'VIies.
 Pursuit Began.
 Captain Fuller and his two associates started immediately in pursuits on foot. | They soon securad hand car and, n l spite of the obstrucu ms placed on the | track bv tho raiders. made rapid pro- gross.
 At Etowah they found the engine "Yonah" and the pursuit thereafter on l that engine was at such rapid rate that serious damage to the railroad by | the raiders was impossible.
 The General was abandoned by the l raiders at a point about half way be-
 tween Ringgold and Graysville, on ac- | count of the lack of fuel and the close
 pursuit of Fuller and his party. When
 the raiders left the engine Captain An | drews instructed every man to take care
 of himself and they left in squads. | Four Of chem were run down in the
 fork of Chickamauga River at Grays- vile, and one was foreibly persuaded | to tell who the Ta.Ging party was and | what was their exact purpose. Others were caught at other points. Later there
 was a trial by q Confederate military court and eight of the raiders were exc. | cuted in Atlanta spies, six were ex- | oh inged and eight escaped from Libby l prison.
 The survivors of the Andrews raid Ars | have erected a monument to their fallAr | comrades and 1t stands today in the Ma. tional Cemetery at Chattanooga. The | Nashville. Chattanooga and St Louis | Railway has erected two tablets. one marking the spot at which the Gen | eral" was captured and the other who, | iG was abandoned, A third tablet cX. l llaning the raid and giving all nans, | and data. has been erected in front {, | the engine in Chattanooga.