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The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History is a museum in Kennesaw, Georgia, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics from the American Civil War, as well as from railroads of the state of Georgia and surrounding regions. The centerpiece is the General, a steam locomotive used in the Great Locomotive Chase in April 1862.
Western & Atlantic Railroad #3 General is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive built in 1855 by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey for the Western & Atlantic Railroad, best known as the engine stolen by Union spies in the Great Locomotive Chase, an attempt to cripple the Confederate rail network during the American Civil War.
Big Shanty Museum of Cherokee St. Kennesaw: Subject of the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War, located at Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History: 21: Gilgal Church Battle Site: Gilgal Church Battle Site: January 23, 1975
Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History: Kennesaw: Cobb: Metro Atlanta: Multiple: Railroad and Civil War artifacts, formerly the Kennesaw Civil War Museum St. Marys Submarine Museum: St. Marys: Camden: Colonial Coast: Maritime: information, American submarine history St. Simons Island Light: St. Simons Island: Glynn: Colonial Coast ...
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council 's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails .
Passengers will depart from the Oklahoma Railway Museum aboard one of six train cars attached to a real locomotive. During the hourlong round trip, the train chugs through the woods and ...
But in his trek to Georgia, Daniel, for unknown reasons, stopped in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a race massacre would erupt, his family says. During the violence that happened over two days – May 31 ...
The General is located at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, in Kennesaw, Georgia, close to where the chase began. The Texas is at the Atlanta History Center. The first account of the chase was published a year after the event in 1863 by William Pittenger, one of the Andrews Raiders, under the title of Daring and Suffering ...