"<$e$es$C This 600^ has been digitized through the generosity of Robert O. Blissard Class of 1957 1 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign THE STORY OF THE "GENERAL" 18 6 2 IE ••GENERAL" AS IT STANDS TODAY IN UNION DEPOT, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. BUILT BY ROGERS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS IN 1855. Issued by The Passenger Departments of the Nashville, Chattanooga d St. Louis Railway and the Western 1 i t±i SW ml ft r] is* 5P/V* fi I 1 1 L T^t III ■l»< ii •< i Pi r A The "General" now in the Union Depot Chattanooga, Tenn. THE engine "GENERAL," made famous by the "Andrews Raid- ers," has been sent to Chatta- nooga, Tenn., by the Nashville, Chat- tanooga & St. Louis Railway, and given a prominent place in the Union Depot. It is there to remain perma- nently, as a monument to American valor, and can be seen at any time by travelers passing through Chatta- nooga over this railway. Additional copies of this pamphlet can be secured by writing to W. L. DANLEY, General Passenger Agent Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis R'y. Nashville, Tenn. or C. E. HARMAN, General Passenger Agent, Western & Atlantic Railroad, Atlanta, Ga. TABLET ERECTEO BY THE N.. C. & ST. I. RY.. IN FRONT OF ENGINE ■•GENERAL" IN UNION DEPOT. CHATTANOOGA TENN. »SH\ll t ERJCE CO.. I ASMV;L--E-25M-4-1 J-09 JAS. J. ANDREWS, of Flemingsburg, Ky., Leader of the Andrews Raiding Party. Executed in Atlanta, Ga., June 7, 1862. ^*V CAPT. W. A. FULLER, Conductor on W. & A. Train from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Which Was Stolen at Big Shanty, Ga., April 12, 1862, by the Andrews Raiders. Died in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28, 1905. TME CAPTURE OF A LOCOMOTIVE A BRILLIANT EXPLOIT Of THE WAR TWENTY minutes for breakfast." Nothing particularly interesting about the old familiar cry, but when on a bright April day, in 1862, the train man sang out: "Big Shanty, twenty minutes for breakfast," the hearts of a score of brave men beat faster, as they knew the hour had come for the beginning of one of the grandest exploits in history. The men, from their dress, were citizens, and had boarded the northbound train at Marietta, a pretty little Georgia town twenty miles north of Atlanta. They paid their fares to different points, and from the conversation one would suppose that they were refu- gees from the Yankees, but in reality they were dis- guised soldiers of the U. S. Army under command of General Mitchell, then in Middle Tennessee, bound South. They were volunteers to do a dangerous work, and were to get through the country as best they could to Marietta, then board a train bound for Chattanooga, and, at Big Shanty, seven miles away, while the train crew and passengers were at break- fast, detach the engine, run north, obstruct the track, cut the wires and burn bridges, of which there were fifteen between Big Shanty and Chattanooga. This was the brilliant scheme ; how well it was carried out is related in the following story : On the morning of the 12th of April, 1862, Capt. W. A. Fuller left Atlanta at 6 o'clock in charge of the passenger train, having three empty freight cars next to the engine, which were intended to bring commis- sary stores from Chattanooga to Atlanta. When he reached Marietta, twenty miles distant from Atlanta, a considerable party of strangers, dressed in citizen's clothes, got on board and paid their fares, some to one point and some to another. They all claimed to be refugees from within the Yankee lines, desirous of joining the Confederate army. Seven miles from Marietta, at Big Shanty, the train stopped for breakfast. Most of the passengers and train's crew went to the breakfast house, which was situated some forty feet from the track. At this time Big Shanty was the location of a camp of in- struction, called CAMP M DONALD, and there were about three thousand Confederate recruits there at the time, being drilled ready to send to the front for active service. The pas?enger= The Story of the "General. had taken seats at the table, Capt. Fuller was sitting on the opposite side of the table from the railroad, and facing the train. He saw through the window some of the strangers who got on at Marietta get on the engine in an excited manner and START OFF RAPIDLY, with the three freight cars detached from the pas- senger train. He remarked to his engineer, Mr. Jeff Cain, and to Mr. Anthony Murphy, who was present, and at that time foreman of the Western & Atlan- tic Railroad shops : "Some one who has no right to do so has gone off with our train." All three arose and hurried out of the house just as the en- gine passed out of sight. Some deserters had been reported as having left Camp McDonald, and the Commanding Officer had requested Capt. Fuller to look out for them and ar- rest any soldiers who attempted to get on his train without a passport. No one had any idea that the parties in possession of the engine were Federals, but supposed that it had been taken by parties de- siring to desert Camp McDonald, and who would run off a short distance and abandon it. Captain Fuller, Murphy and Cain left Big Shanty with a clear and well-defined motive and a fixed determination to recapture the engine, no matter who the parties were. They started out ON FOOT AND ALONE, nothing daunted in putting muscle in competition with steam. Captain Fuller outran his companions and soon reached Moon's Station, two miles from Big Shanty. Here he learned from the track men that the men with the engine stopped and took their tools from them by force. They reported that on the engine and in the freight cars there were twenty- four or twenty-five men, and that while some of the men gathered the tools, others climbed the telegraph poles and cut the wires in two places, carrying away about one hundred yards of the wire. This state- ment satisfied Captain Fuller that these men were Federals in disguise. This added new stimulus to his resolve. The determination then was not only to capture his engine, but the Federals. With the assistance of the track hands, he placed on the track a hand car, such as is used to haul crossties and tools, and pushed back for his engineer, when he soon met Messrs. Murphy and Cain. Knowing the schedules, grades, stations and dis- tances so well, he was confident that by using great effort he could reach Etowah River by the time the fugitives could reach Kingston. At Kingston he knew they would have to contend with a number of t REV. WILLIAM PITTENGER, Sergeant Company G, 2d Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Died in Fallbrook, Cal., April 24, 1904. WILLIAM KNIGHT, Private, Company E, 21st Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in Stryker, Ohio. The Story of the "General. freight trains, which would necessarily detain them several minutes. As soon as he got Mr. Murphy and Mr. Cain on board, he told them his plan was to push on to Eto- wah as quickly as possible, for there he hoped to get old "Yonah," an engine used at Cooper's Iron Works, and his plan proved successful. In the "rapid transit" by hand car, Captain Fuller. Mr. Murphy and Mr. Cain took turns in pushing, TWO RUNNING OX FOOT and pushing, while the other rested; one mile from Moon's Station they found a large pile of crossties on the track — placed there by the fugitives to ob- struct pursuit. The obstructions were removed, and they pushed on to Acworth. Here they pressed into service such guns as they could find, and were joined by two citizens, Mr. Smith, of Tonesboro, and Mr. Steve Stokely, of Cobb County, who rendered valu- able service in the subsequent pursuit. Resuming their journey they found no obstructions until they reached a short curve two miles from Etowah. Here two rails from the outside of the curve had been taken up. The result was the hand-car was ditched. In a few seconds Captain Fuller and his men had the car on the track BEYOND THE BREAK, and with renewed energy and determination they pushed on to Etowah, where, to their great joy. they found the engine, as they supposed they would. And yet it appeared a slim chance. The engine was standing on the side-track with the tender on the turn-table. The tender was turned around and pushed to the engine and a coal car attached. Some six or eight Confederate soldiers volunteered in the chase and took passage in the coal car. From Eto- wah to Kingston Captain Fuller ran at the rate of SIXTY MILES PER HOUR. and found that the fugitives had passed by. A large number of freight trains had pulled by station so as to let the fugitives out at the further end of the track. The agent informed Captain Ful- ler that the leader of the fugitives claimed to be a Confederate officer who had impressed the train at Big Shanty and the three cars were loaded fixed ammunition for General Beauregard at Cor- inth. Captain Fuller, he said, was behind with the regular passenger train. He insisted that the agent should let him have a switch key and instruct the conductors of the down trains to pull by and get out of his way, as it was important for him to go on to The Story of the " General r ." Chattanooga and Corinth as rapidly as possible. So authoritative was he in his demands, and so plausi- ble in his speech, that the agent, a patriotic man, believing his story, carried out his request, and so the fugitives, by the finesse of their leader, passed by one great obstruction. The freight trains were gathered here, and so heavy to move, that had Cap- tain Fuller stopped to get them out of his way, to pass, his delay would have been too long. Find- ing that he could not pass with old "Yonah," he abandoned it. The Rome engine was on the "Y," headed for Chattanooga, with one car attached. He immediately took possession of it, and continued the chase with all who would volunteer to go with him. He had not proceeded far before he found cross- TABLET ERECTED BY N., C. & ST. L. RY., MARKING THE SPOT AT WHICH THE ENGINE "GENERAL" WAS CAPTURED BY THE "ANDREWS RAIDERS." SIMILAR TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED MARKING THE SPOT AT WHICH THE "GENERAL" WAS ABAN- DONED. ties on the track every two or three hundred yards. After passing Kingston the fugitives punched out the end of the rear car, which enabled them to drop out ties without slacking up. Captain Fuller was forced to lose time in stopping to remove these obstruc- tions. Laboring under these disadvantages the pur- suers redoubled their energy and proceeded to Adairsville. When he reached a point four miles from Adairsville he found sixty yards of track torn up, and WILLIAM BENSINGER, Private, Company G, 2ist Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in McComb, Ohio. DANIEL A. DORSEY, Corporal, Company Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in Enid, Okla. The Story of the "General:' 11 SET OUT ON FOOT, calling on his men to follow. When he had gone half a mile he looked back and saw none but Anthony Murphy following him. He made two miles as QUICK AS HE COULD RUN, and met the express freight. Having a gun and knowing the signal, the engineer recognized Cap- tain Fuller and stopped the train immediately. Knowing that Mr. Murphy was only a short dis- tance behind, the train was detained until he came 3 MONUMENT IN NATIONAL CEMETERY, CHATTANOOGA, ERECTED BY THE ANDREWS' RAIDERS TO THEIR FALLEN COMRADES. up. He then took a position at the rear end of the train, twenty car lengths from the engine, and STARTED BACKWARD in the direction of Adairsville, without taking time to explain to the engineer or conductor. When he got within two hundred yards of the switch at Adairsville, Captain Fuller jumped off the train, ran ahead and changed the switch so as to throw the cars on the side track. He accomplished this, changed the switch to the main track and jumped on the engine which had been uncoupled from the The Bast and West of Alabama and the Marietta a The red line shcr of the "General, at a point about half way bei or.th Georgia railroads have been built since the -war. It was captured at Big Shanty and abandoned jen Ringgold and Graysville. 14 The Story of the "General" train. This feat was accomplished so quickly that the train and engine RAN SIDE BY SIDE for fully three hundred yards. He now had only the engine with the following crew: A. Murphy, Peter Bracken, the engineer; Fleming Cox, the fireman, and Alonzo Martin, wood-passer. He resumed the chase, making Calhoun, ten miles distant, in twelve minutes. As he approached Calhoun, Captain Fuller recognized the telegraph operator, from Dalton, a lad twelve years old. The operator also recognized Captain Fuller, and as the engine passed by at the rate of FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR grasped Captain Fuller's hand held out to him, and was safely landed on the engine. The operator hav- ing discovered that the wire had been cut, made his way down to Calhoun, looking for the break. As they sped along backwards as fast as an engine with five feet ten inch wheels could possibly run, Captain Fuller wrote the following telegram to General Ledbetter, then in command at Chattanooga : "My train was captured this a.m., at Big Shanty, evidently by Federal soldiers in disguise. They are making rapidly for Chattanooga, possibly with an idea of burning the railroad bridges in their rear. If I do not capture them in the meantime, see that they do not pass Chattanooga." Captain Fuller's desire now was to reach Dalton and send the tele- gram before the fugitives could cut the wire beyond Dalton. Two miles beyond Calhoun THE FUGITIVES WERE SIGHTED FOR THE FIRST TIME, and from their movements they were evidently greatly excited. They detached one of their freight cars and left it at the spot where they were dis- covered. They had partially taken up a rail, but that or the car did not detain Captain Fuller. He coupled the car to the engine without stopping, got on top of the freight car and gave signals to the engineer by which he could run, as the car in front obscured his view. Two and a half miles farther Captain Fuller came across another freight car which the fugitives had detached. As before, he coupled this on without stopping, and pushed on to Resaca, where he switched the two cars off on the siding. Again he started with an engine only. Two miles north of Resaca, while standing on the rear of the tender, he discovered in a short curve a T-rail di- agonally ACROSS THE TRACK, and being too close to stop, the engine went over it at the rate of fifty-five miles an hour. After this, JACOB PARROTT, Private, Company K, 33d Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in Kenton, Ohio. JOHN R. PORTER, Private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in Windfall, Ind. 16 The Story of the "General " until they reached Dalton, only occasionally were ob- structions met with. At Dalton he dropped the tele- graph operator with instructions to put through the telegram at all hazards, and continued the chase. Two miles beyond he overtook the fugitives TEASING UP THE TRACK in plain view of Col. Jesse A. Glenn's regiment, camped near by. They cut the telegraph wire just after the Dalton operator had flashed Captain Ful- ler's telegram over it, preventing him from receiv- ing the usual acknowledgment from Chattanooga. The fugitives resumed their flight, and never, per- haps, -did two engines with five feet ten inch wheels make faster time than the pursued and the pursuer. The fugitives had the advantage, from the fact that the "General," a "Rogers," was headed for Chatta- nooga, while the "Texas," a "Danforth and Cook," engine, was running backward. The fifteen miles to Ringgold and three miles beyond was made in less time than Captain Fuller ever made the same distance in twenty-two years' experience as a conductor. Half way between Ring- gold and Graysville he got within one-quarter of a mile of the fugitives, who, being so closely pressed, set their only remaining FREIGHT CAR ON FIRE with a view of cutting it loose on the next bridge. The smoke of the "General" plainly evidenced that she was fagging. The fugitives abandoned the engine and took to the woods in a westerly direc- tion. Captain Fuller now ran up and coupled on to the burning car. The fire was extinguished and the car sent back to Ringgold in charge of the engineer. As Captain Fuller passed Ringgold he noticed some fifty or seventy-five militia mustering and sent back word to the commanding officer to put all his MILITIA ON HORSEBACK and send them into the woods in pursuit of the fugitives as quickly as possible. This was about half past one o'clock p.m. Although jaded and fa- tigued, Captain Fuller, Anthony Murphy, Fleming Cox and Alonzo Martin took to the woods in pur- suit. When the fugitives abandoned the engine, Andrews, their leader, said: "every one take care of himself," and they left in squads of three or four. Four of them were run down in the fork of the Chicka- mauga River, at Graysville, and one was forcibly persuaded to tell who they were. The militia, mounted on fresh horses, scoured the woods that WILSON W. BROWN, Corporal, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Now living in Farwell, Mich. w ***■* WILLIAM H. REDDICK, Corporal. CompanyB. 33d Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Died in Seventy-six Township, Muscatine County, Iowa, November 8, 1903. 18 The Story of the "General." afternoon, and in a few days the last of the fugitives were captured. Later there was a trial by military court, and eight of the number were executed in Atlanta as spies. Six were exchanged and eight escaped from prison at Atlanta. Thus ended one of the most daring ex- ploits on record. There were twenty-two men engaged in the en- terprise. Twenty of them were from Ohio and two from Kentucky. # * * The following official letter received from the War Department is reproduced, on account of the valu- able information it contains : NATIONAL CEMETERY. CHATTANOOGA. TENN. RecorD anD pension Office, MUat ^Department. Washington City, February 18, 1003. Mr. IV. L. Danley, General Passenger Agent, Nash- ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, Nash- zille, Tenn. Dear Sir: In response to your letter of the nth instant, in which you request information relative to the members of the "Andrews Raiders," this infor- mation being desired for use on the tablets that are to be placed on the engine "General," that was used by Andrews and his followers in the raid made by them on the Confederate line of communications south of Chattanooga, Tenn., in April, 1862, I have the honor to advise you as follows : It appears from the official records of the War Department that the following named persons par- The Story of the "Genera/." 19 ticipated in the raid on the Confederate line of com- munications between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Marietta, Georgia, April 7 to 12, 1862: Jas. J. Andrews, leader, citizen of Flemingsburg, Ky. William H. Campbell, citizen of Kentucky. Marion A. Ross, Sergeant-Major, 2d Ohio Infantry. William Pittenger, Sergeant, Company G, 2d Ohio Infantry. George D. Wilson, private, Company B, 2d Ohio Infantry. Charles P. Shadrach, private, Company K, 2d Ohio Infantry. Elihu H. Mason, Sergeant, Company K, 21st Ohio Infantry. John M. Scott, Sergeant, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry. Wilson W. Brown, Corporal, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry. Mark Wood, private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry. John A. Wilson, private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry. William Knight, private, Company E, 21st Ohio Infantry. John R. Porter, private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry. William Bensinger, private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry. Robert Buffum, private, Company H, 21st Ohio Infantry. Martin J. Hawkins, Corporal, Company A, 33d Ohio Infantry. Wm. H. Reddick, Corporal, Company B, 33d Ohio Infantry. Daniel A. Dorsey, Corporal, Company H, 33d Ohio Infantry. John Wollam, private, Company C, 33d Ohio Infantry. Samuel Slavens, private, Company E, 33d Ohio Infantry. Samuel Robertson, private, Company G, 33d Ohio Infantry. Jacob Parrott, private, Company K, 33d Ohio Infantry. It further appears that eight of these men, whose names appear below, were executed by the Con- federate authorities at Atlanta, Ga., in June, 1862: Andrews on June 7, and Campbell, Ross, George D. Wilson, Shadrach, Scott, Slavens and Robertson on June 18. On October 16, 1862, the eight following named made their escape from prison at Atlanta, Ga. : Brown, Wood, John A. Wilson, Knight, Porter, Hawkins, Dorsey and Wollam. The remaining six members of the raiding party were paroled at City Point, Va., March 17, 1863. Their names follow: Pittenger, Mason, Bensinger, Buffum, Reddic and Parrott. On March 25, 1863, medals of honor were pre- sented to the last mentioned (paroled) soldiers in person by the Secretary of War, and were the first medals of honor awarded under the authority con- ferred by the joint resolution of Congress approved July 12, 1862. and Section 6 of the sundry civil ap- propriation Acts of March 3, 1863. The men who escaped from prison in October, 1862, were also subsequently awarded medals. Of those who had been executed, medals were delivered to the mother of Ross and to the widows of Scott and Slavens. In the case of Robertson a medal was also issued, but to whom it was delivered cannot now be ascertained. Very respectfully, (Signed) F. C. Ainsworth, Chief Record and Pension Office. The survivors of the Andrews Raiders have erected a monument to their fallen comrades, and it stands today in the National Cemetery at Chat- tanooga. (See cut on page II.) The "General" is reproduced in miniature on top of the monument, and on the left hand side is a die containing the names of the "Raiders" who were executed in At- lanta; on the right hand side a die containing the names of the eight who escaped from prison at At- lanta; and at the rear a die containing the names of those exchanged. SAMUEL SLAVEXS, Private, Company E, 33d Ohio Infantry, member of the Andrews Raiding Party. Executed in Atlanta, Ga., June 18, 1862. TiUMtei ANTHONY MURPHY, Foreman of the W. & A. R. R. Shops in 1862, member of Capt. Fuller's Pursuing Party. living in Atlanta, Ga. The Story of the "General:' 21 Two monuments, with tablets, have also been erected by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, one marking the spot at which the "Gen- eral" was captured and the other where it was aban- doned. A third tablet has been erected in front of the engine "General'' in Chattanooga. Mr. Pittenger, in his book, "Capturing a Loco- motive," says : "We obstructed the track as well as we could by laying on crossties at different places. We also cut the wires between every station. Fi- nally, when we were nearly to the station where we expected to meet the last train, we stopped to take up a rail. We had no instruments but a crowbar, and instead of pulling out the spikes, as we could have done with the pinch bars used for that pur- pose by railroad men, we had to batter them out. Just as we were going to relinquish the effort, the whistle of an engine in pursuit sounded in our ears. With one convulsive effort we broke the rail in two, took up our precious half rail and left. We were scarcely out of sight of the place where we had taken up the half rail before the other train met us. This was safely passed. When our pursuers came up to the place where the broken rail was taken up, they abandoned their engine and ran on foot till they met the freight train and turned it back after us. We adopted every expedient we could think of to delay pursuit, but as we were cutting the wire near Calhoun they came in sight of us. We instantly put our engine to full speed, and in a moment the wheels were striking fire from the rails in their rapid revolutions. The car in which we rode rocked furiously and threw us from one side to the other like peas rattled in a gourd. I then proposed to Andrews to let our engineer take the engine out of sight, while we hid in a curve, after putting a cross- tie on the track; when they checked to remove the obstructions, we could rush on them, shoot every person on the engine, reverse it, and let it drive backward at will." The Southern Confederacy, a paper published at Atlanta at the time, says : "The fugitives, not ex- pecting pursuit, quietly took in wood and water at Cass Station and borrowed a schedule from the tank tender upon the plausible pretext that they were run- ning a pressed train loaded with powder for Beau- regard." The article further states : "They had on the en- gine a red handkerchief, indicating that the regular passenger train would be along presently. They stopped at Adairsville and said that Fuller, with the regular passenger train, was behind, and would wait HENRY P. HANEY, member of Capt. Fuller's Pursuing Party. Now living in Atlanta, Ga. Ass't Chief of the Atlanta Fire Department. PETER J. BRACKEN, member of Capt. Fuller's Pursuing Party. Now living in Macon, Ga. The Story of the "General." 23 at Kingston for the freight train, and told the con- ductor to push ahead and meet him at that point. This was done to produce a collision with Captain Fuller's train. When the morning freight reached Big Shanty, Lieutenant-Colonels R. F. Maddox and C. D. Phillips, took the engine, and with fifty picked men, followed on as rapidly as possible. Captain Fuller on his return met them at Tunnel Hill and turned them back. Peter Bracken, the engineer on the freight train, ran his engine fifty and a half miles — two of them backing the whole freight train up to Adairsville — made twelve stops, coupled the two cars dropped by the fugitives, and switched them off on sidings in one hour and five minutes. Captain Fuller fully corroborates the invaluable service ren- dered by the veteran Bracken." In his evidence at the trial, Pittenger stated that one of the party proposed to stop the engine in a short curve, ambuscade and kill Fuller and his men as he came up, but Andrews would not agree to it. He also stated that when the "General" gave out, they were burning oil cans, tool boxes, and planks ripped off the freight car. As they abandoned her, they reversed her, in order to bring on a col- lision with Captain Fuller's engine, but in their ex- citement they left the brake on the tender, and the steam had not sufficient force to back the engine. DESCRIPTION OF THE "GENERAL." We are indebted to Mr. Louis L. Park, Chief Draughtsman of the Rogers Locomotive Works, Patterson, N. J., for the following information in regard to the "General," taken from the plans and specifications of that company: Built by the Rogers Locomotive Works in De- cember, 1855, for the Western & Atlantic R. R. An eight-wheel, wood-burning locomotive of type 440-50, weighing 50,300 pounds; gauge, 5 feet; cylinders, 15x22 inches; piston rod 2 1-4 inches in diameter; has four driving wheels, each 60 inches in diame- ter, made of cast iron, with journals 6 inches in diameter; driving wheel base, 7 inches; total wheel base of engine, about 20 feet, 6 inches ; weight on drivers, 32,000 pounds; weight on truck, 18,000 pounds ; heating surface : flues, 748.38 square feet ; fire-box, 71.08 square feet; total heating surface, 819.44 square feet. Grate area, 12.46 square feet. Boiler of type known as Wagon Top, covered with felt and Russia iron ; diameter inside first course, 40 inches ; working pressure, about 140 pounds ; thick- ness of barrel of boiler, 5-16 of an inch; thickness of dome course, 3-8 of an inch; fire-box: thickness of shell, 3-8 and 5-16 of an inch; thickness of crown, 24 Ike Story of the "General" 3-8 of an inch; thickness of flue-sheet, 1-2 an inch; thickness of sides and back, 5-16 of an inch; length of grate, 46 inches; width 39 inches. Contains 130 flues, each 11 feet long by 2 inches in diameter. Steam-pipes 5 inches in diameter. Engine truck, 4- wheel, rigid center; tender trucks, 4-wheel, inside bearing. Diameter of wheels, 30 inches. Has 2 es- cape valves and 2 pumps. The smoke stack is of the old balloon type, and the cow-catcher is much longer and larger than those on modern engines. The following article, which appeared in the Kennesaw "Gazette" of March, 1886, shows that the old "General" has had an eventful life. "This famous locomotive is still on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, pulling a train. She is one of "the old issue/' but is retained in service, although her capacity is rather limited, when compared with the big "ten-wheelers" and other modern locomo- tives which the ever wide-awake IV e stern & Atlantic Railroad Company now possess. "It is a matter of national knowledge that the 'General' was captured by twenty-two Federal sol- diers in disguise, April 12, 1862, at Big Shanty, and the attempt was made by them to escape with her and burn the bridges on the W . & A. R. R. } etc. Their chase from Big Shanty to a point near Ring- gold, and the capture of the entire party are well known facts. "It is not known, however, that the 'General' was almost under tire of the Federal batteries at the great battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, When the battle began during the early morning General Johnston sent up a train load of ammunition, etc., to the Confederate lines at the eastern base of Kennesaw Mountain. The ammunition, etc., was unloaded and carried to the front as quickly as pos- sible, but the engine and train were detained at that point, by order of General Johnston, to carry back the wounded at the close of the battle. During the entire morning the 'General' and her train stood at the point where now is the station Elizabeth, and some of the Federal bomb-shells, Hying over the Con- federate entrenchments, exploded almost in her neighborhood. In the afternoon wounded soldiers from Featherstone's Division, and others in that por- tion of the field, were placed aboard the train, and the 'General 1 brought them down to Marietta, and thence on to Atlanta. "The 'General' was also the last IV. & A. R. R. engine to leave Atlanta when Hood's army evacuated it, and it was thought just before she left that it would be impossible to take her away, but they man- aged to get her safely out, and she zvent southward with a train load of refugees, war material, etc." Colored Lithograph of the "General" for 10 Cts. A beautiful colored lithograph of the "General," size 18x25 inches, will be mailed to any address for 10 cents. Addre-s \V. L. Daxley, General Pass. Agent, N., C. & St. L. Ry., Nashville, Tenn. J* Oft-