By Gordon L. Rottman
In April 1862, the level used to be set for one of many maximum locomotive chases in background. Union forces deliberate to scouse borrow a educate and commute at excessive pace to Chattanooga, Tennessee, disabling the road as they went, that allows you to bring to an end important rail provides to the accomplice stronghold of Atlanta, Georgia, a few 100-plus miles to the southwest. What they hadn't banked on used to be the dogged decision of 1 guy, educate conductor William Fuller, who, after knowing his teach were stolen, all started a frantic pursuit, first via handcar, then via top-speed locomotive, facing derailments by means of working miles taking walks to the subsequent station, and single-handedly removal drag ties from the music in entrance of his educate. The raiders have been so hotly pursued they'd no time to inflict critical harm at the tracks and will now not cease to assemble extra gasoline. simply north of Ringgold, a few miles south of Chattanooga, the overall ran out of wooden and the raiders scattered into the forested Appalachian Mountains. All have been captured inside days and sentenced to demise. notice the historical past of 1 of the main colourful and dramatic episodes of the Civil battle as Gordon L. Rottman expertly recounts this remarkable story of sabotage, theft and raiding at the rail strains of the Deep South.
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