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William Allen Fuller (April 15, 1836 – December 28, 1905) was a conductor on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the American Civil War era. He was most noted for his role in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase, a daring sabotage mission and raid conducted by soldiers of the Union Army in northern Georgia.
Conductor William A. Fuller. The raid began on April 12, 1862, when the regular morning passenger train from Atlanta, with the locomotive General, stopped for breakfast at the Lacy Hotel. They took the General and the train's three boxcars, which were behind the tender in front of the passenger cars. The passenger cars were left behind.
Eamonn Boyce was born on North William Street, Dublin, on 8 August 1925, the eldest son of Edward Boyce and Mary Josephine Boyce (née Dunne). [3] He was working as a CIÉ Bus Conductor when he was first recruited by the Irish Republican Army in 1952.
A fisherman wearing a towel with eye holes, stopped a train near the Kekaha Sugar Co. held the conductor known only as Mr. Asser and stole several dollars worth of USD. [59] Roseville, California: 19 May, 1921 Roy Gardner: Roy Gardner boarded a Southern Pacific train in Sacramento and stole $187,000 from the express car. [60] Roseville, California
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry [nb 1] was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).
Kentucky raid in Cass County (1847) was conducted by slaveholders and slave catchers who raided Underground Railroad stations in Cass County, Michigan to capture black people and return them to slavery. After unsuccessful attempts, and a lost court case, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was enacted. Michigan's Personal Liberty Act of 1855 was ...
In the 1920s Sargent became one of the best-known English conductors. [23] In London, he succeeded Boult as conductor of the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children from 1924 to 1939. [5] [24] In the provinces he conducted the British National Opera Company in The Mastersingers on tour in 1924 and 1925, winning praise from music critics around the ...
George DeBaptiste (c. 1815 – February 22, 1875) was a prominent African-American conductor on the Underground Railroad in southern Indiana and Detroit, Michigan.Born free in Virginia, he moved as a young man to the free state of Indiana.