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The Great Locomotive Chase Festival is a three-day celebration held in remembering the Great Locomotive Chase of April 12, 1862. It is held the first weekend each October in the center of downtown Adairsville, Georgia.
Since at least 1979, the city of Adairsville has held The Great Locomotive Chase Festival, a three-day festival in October which commemorates the event. [29] [30] In 2000, composer Robert W. Smith wrote a concert piece named for and inspired by the incident. [31]
The General is displayed at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia (A shooting script of The Great Locomotive Chase is on this display along with movie posters for both France and Spain in the French and Spanish languages, respectively.). The Texas is displayed at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead.
The Great Locomotive Chase Festival — Adairsville; Marble Festival — Jasper; Yellow Daisy Festival — Stone Mountain; Cultural. Georgia Renaissance Festival ...
Two soldiers from Ohio regiments who participated in a Civil War locomotive chase were finally awarded the Medal of Honor.
Robert Buffum (July 7, 1828 to July 20, 1871) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War.Buffum was the third person to receive the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action during the Great Locomotive Chase in Georgia (U.S. state) in April 1862.
After a chase described in Great Locomotive Chase, the raiders ran out of fuel near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and were captured. As a civilian, Campbell was tried and convicted of being an unlawful combatant. He was hanged with six others June 18, 1862 at the corner of Fair Street (now Memorial Drive) and South Park Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. His ...
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.