![]() ![]() The raid failed after ninety miles primarily due to conductor William Fuller, who chased after them and used another locomotive, the Texas, to catch them. ![]() Pittenger was one of the twenty-two Federal soldiers who made their way through the lines to Marietta, Georgia and took the train. The Great Locomotive Chase inspired one movie with Buster Keaton as William Fuller, the confederate conductor who chases after the stolen train, The General, and a Disney movie with Fess Parker as leader of the raid James Andrews, The Great Locomotive Chase. ![]() You can download and read it for free here or here. This is a book by William Pittenger which recounts his adventures as a member of the Andrews Raiding Party in the “Great Locomotive Chase” of April, 1862, along with his time as a prisoner of the confederates after his capture. ![]()
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