The General (locomotive)

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Before the Civil War

Built in 1855 by Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey, the General provided freight and passenger service between Atlanta, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, before the Civil War on the Western and Atlantic Railroad. (Antebellum trains were generally known by names, not numbers.)

Civil War

During the Civil War The General was stolen by northern spies led by James J. Andrews at Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia, and abandoned at Ringgold, Georgia. Later it narrowly escaped destruction when General John Bell Hood ordered the ordinance depot destroyed as he left Atlanta on September 1, 1864.

Present Day

Housed in the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Kennesaw, Georgia