Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The General train, on display in Georgia. At the height of the Civil War, a smuggler-turned-Union spy came up with a daring plan.

This episode tells the story of the Great Locomotive Chase, beginning at Big Shanty, Georgia, on April 12, 1862. James J. Andrews and Union raiders stole the Confederate locomotive The General, hoping ...

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