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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A LOCOMOTIVE THAT HANGED EIGHT MEN AS SPIES
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In April, 1S62, J. J. Andrews, a citizen of Kentucky and a spy in General Buells employment, proposed seizing a locomotive onthe Western and .Atlantic Railroad atsome point below * hattanooga and runningit back to that place, cutting telegraph wiresand burning bridges on the way. General O. M.Mitehel authorized the plan and twenty-two men volunteered to carry it out. On the morning of April 12th, the train they were onstopped at Big Shanty station for breakfast. The bridge-burners (who were in citizens clothes) detached the locomotive and threebox-cars and started at full speed for Chattanooga, but after a run of about a hundred miles their fuel was exhausted and their pur-suers were in sight. The whole party was captured. Andrews was condemned as a spy and hanged at Atlanta, July 7th. The otherswere confined at Chattanooga, Knoxville, and afterward at Atlanta, where seven were executed as spies. Of the fourteen survivors,eight escaped from prison; and of these, six eventually reached the Union lines. Six were removed fo Richmond and confined in Castle Thunder until they were exchanged in 1863. The Confederates attempted to destroy the locomotive, when they evacuated Atlanta.

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