Redoubling their efforts, the pursuers twice rounded curves only to be hurled off the track where the raiders had lifted rails. A West Pointer, he had resigned from the army in the 1830's to pursue a varied career that included teaching astronomy and mathematics, practicing law, and building railroads. Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. The most avid investigator of his life, Charles O’Neill, deduced that he was foreign-born, probably in Finland, but his life is a blank until 1859, when he appeared in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, and took up house painting and clerking in the local hotel. Great blog. Add to Cart. But we were young then, and youth takes chances that are appalling to old age.” At one point near Tilton on a straight stretch of track the Yankees managed to lengthen their lead enough to stop for badly needed wood and water. 15 of 16 people found this review helpful. © Copyright 1949-2021 American Heritage Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. Corporal William Pittenger was invalided out of the army later in 1863, but the rest of the raiders remained in uniform until the war’s end. This film starred Fess Parker as Andrews and was a serious treatment of the events (albeit somewhat fictionalized and romanticized). But the fact that while waiting he burned a rail bridge in front of him suggests that he had already abandoned any hope of seizing Chattanooga by a bold coup de main . Annie married Atlanta architect, artist and historian Wilbur G.Kurtz. Due to the confusion in Chattanooga, the conductor told Andrews, the trailing southbound passenger train was running half an hour late. Once more Andrews told his story of rushing to General Beauregard’s aid, and once more it got him out on the main line. We aren’t that, as even those who convicted us knew.… A lot of you are going to live to be sorry for what you’re now doing. Cooper’s, he knew, kept a small switching engine named the, Some forty-five minutes before the Georgians piled aboard the, At last came the welcome whistle of the extra’s second section. The moment the, A mile or so short of Graysville, near the Georgia-Tennessee border, the, Before dashing into the woods, engineer Knight threw the, After taking Huntsville on Friday, Mitchel put a brigade aboard a captured train and, on Saturday, while the Great Locomotive Chase was convulsing northern Georgia, steamed eastward to Stevenson, Alabama, thirty miles from Chattanooga. View production, box office, & company info. As his men drifted into the depot to await the southbound evening train, he discovered the count was two short. Near Resaca, five miles north of Calhoun, was a long trestle over the Oostanaula River, one of the raiders’ prime targets. Davy and his friends leave for New Orleans to sell some fur pelts. Andrews had ordered the men to set fire to the remaining boxcar in the hope of dropping it off inside one of the covered bridges—to at least partially accomplish the mission-but the day-long rain had soaked everything combustible. Rebel picket posts accepted their cover story and welcomed them to the cause. Inspired by the events surrounding the railway between Atlanta and Chattanooga during the early years of the Civil War, Robert W. Smith stages the train chase complete with fascinating textures and effects. Contrary to the revisionist historians, … Puller sent a messenger back to the militia garrison at Ringgold to order a roundup of the fugitives. After taking Huntsville on Friday, Mitchel put a brigade aboard a captured train and, on Saturday, while the Great Locomotive Chase was convulsing northern Georgia, steamed eastward to Stevenson, Alabama, thirty miles from Chattanooga. “Someone is moving your engine!” he shouted to conductor Fuller. At Kingston, according to the timetable, they would encounter the first of the southbound trains from Chattanooga. Yet Andrews chose not to stand and fight long enough to finish the job. Its locomotive was the powerful woodburner, When the train pulled into Big Shanty at 6:45, Redoubling their efforts, the pursuers twice rounded curves only to be hurled off the track where the raiders had lifted rails. We made it a point to appear as insignificant or uneducated as we could.” At one general store a native was overheard to remark that the strangers were a “lot of country Jakes, who hardly knew enough to come in when it rained.”. In the movie, the Catoosa didn't chase the General with the Texas. His fury was now tinged with desperation. The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century. “The game was almost up …,” said Dorsey. On Monday evening, April 7, Andrews briefed his twenty-three volunteers. For the first time that day, after running almost seven miles, polingahandcar, and riding a switch engine and the small branch-line Rome engine, the two Georgians were in command of a locomotive fully capable of testing the General and its captors. “I ran two and a half miles, and when I say run, I don’t mean trot, gallop or pace. M. Mitchel, under whose authority it was organized, commanded Union forces in Middle Tennessee, consisting of a division of Buell's Army. Ahead of Andrews was a clear track, but behind him his tenacious pursuers were closing the gap. When the train pulled into Big Shanty at 6:45 A.M. , the passengers hurried to Lacy’s Hotel to find places at the breakfast table. With the telegraph still dead-the Yankees had stopped to cut the wire soon after they cleared Kingston—Fuller commandeered the Rome train and once more set out in pursuit. But it ended up playing a small role in another landmark event in Walt’s life. With their engine replenished, they made one more attempt to permanently block pursuit. Before dashing into the woods, engineer Knight threw the General into reverse, but steam pressure was too low and the pursuing Texas easily picked up the slowmoving engine. He had been a passenger on the train they commandeered. (1956). For 70 years, American Heritage has been the leading magazine of U.S. history, politics, and culture. Big Shanty lacked a telegraph station, so there was no way to send a warning up the line, but that did not deter conductor Fuller. “Fuller, Cain, and myself concluded in a few minutes that our duty was to proceed after them,” Murphv later testified. Trusted Writing on History, Travel, Food and Culture Since 1949, At first light, right on schedule, the morning mail train from Atlanta arrived at the Marietta station. The schedule for the mission, however, was in disarray. Murphy’s best guess was that the thieves were deserters from the nearby training camp, taking this unorthodox method of putting distance between themselves and Confederate authorities. Nor would any bridge-burning efforts have been hampered by Saturday’s day-long rain. General Ormsby Mitchel’s military career went nowhere after his aborted attempt on Chattanooga, and in October, 1862, at a new post on the North Carolina coast, he died of yellow fever. After an agonizing delay, the extra arrived at Kingston—and it, too, had a red flag on the rearmost car. … “Engineer Knight strolled over to the boxcar containing the men, leaned his back against the door, and said in a low voice, “Boys, we’ve got to wait a while more for one more train that’s behind time, and the local folks around are getting edgy. The crew tumbled out onto the platform, raising the alarm, and the Rebel sentries loosed a few futile shots at the stolen train disappearing around a curve. The Great Locomotive Chase is a true tale of the Civil War, one cinephiles would have previously discovered in Buster Keaton's The General, but this is the docu-drama version. In temperment, he wrote, Andrews “delighted in strategy” rather than “the plain course of a straight outand-out fight with the pursuing train.” The, Andrews’ delight in strategy was soon evident. The Great Locomotive Chase has become a legendary event that unfolded during the early years of the Civil War, an attempt by Union forces and sympathizers to destroy railroad infrastructure north of Atlanta, Georgia in hopes of eventually capturing the strategic city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The gallant little switch engine had made the fourteen-mile run from Etowah in fifteen minutes, only to face the same jam-up that had frustrated the Andrews raiders. (Martin Hawkins and John Porter had reached the depot only in time to see the train puffing off down the track. Mar 02, 2012. A mile or so short of Graysville, near the Georgia-Tennessee border, the General began to flounder. (Sam Llewellyn and James Smith had run into trouble near the village of Jasper. He had no illusions about his fate. He was known to the Confederate high command for his earlier smuggling of medicines into the South, and it was now obvious that he was a double agent. Two days later, however, Andrews was retaken (Wollam evaded capture for a month) and on June 7 the leader of the raiders was taken to a gallows a block from Peachtree Street in Atlanta and hanged. One team cut the telegraph line, another piled up obstructions on the track, engineers Knight and Brown checked and oiled the locomotive, and the rest of the party labored to lift a rail. Andrews demanded an explanation. Cooper’s, he knew, kept a small switching engine named the Yonah . 1 review of The Great Locomotive Chase Festival "IT'S FALL FESTIVAL SEASON! He had no reason to doubt that the track ahead was clear. The experience of William Knight, the engineer who had piloted the stolen General, was typical: “We had spent forty-seven days and nights, passing over some of the roughest country that ever laid out of doors.”. Within minutes Fuller, Cain, and Murphy had steam up and were pounding along at full throttle for Kingston, fourteen miles away. In mid-October they heard a rumor from their jailer that they too would be tried, and on October 16 they staged a mass breakout from their Atlanta prison. That, at any rate, was Pittenger’s view. “The grand old iron steed was dying in his tracks.” The General had carried them nearly one hundred miles from Big Shanty, but it could carry them no farther. That morning, they learned, Federal troops had seized Huntsville. By the same token, however, there is little reason to believe that conductor Fuller’s pursuit would have been any less vigorous twenty-four hours earlier. Together, Mitchel and Andrews concocted a scheme aimed at removing the Chattanooga linchpin from the South’s war effort. Shop and Buy The Great Locomotive Chase sheet music. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Balked by the torn-up track, Puller had to abandon the Rome engine and for the third time that morning dash northward on foot. The raiders were meanwhile pushing hard for Adairsville, ten miles north of Kingston, where two more scheduled southbound trains were to be passed. Andrews knew that on the single-track line he would have to hold to the timetable in order to pass the morning’s three scheduled southbound trains at station sidings. The Federals had left, however; even so, the two had almost talked their way past a Rebel patrol when a civilian rushed up and pointed them out as Yankees. But as with every other surprise he had encountered that eventful day, Fuller was undaunted. That evening and the next day, twentytwo more volunteers were culled from the 33rd Ohio and two sister Buckeye regiments, the 2nd and the 21st, at Shelby ville. This is based on a true story. I found this connection to be interesting and if anyone out there is a GWTW junkie like myself, try to get a copy of the above mentioned journal. One team cut the telegraph line, another piled up obstructions on the track, engineers Knight and Brown checked and oiled the locomotive, and the rest of the party labored to lift a rail. In Lacy’s dining room, foreman Murphy glanced up from his breakfast to see the abbreviated train speeding off. The men were instructed to board the northbound morning mail train and be prepared for action during the twenty-minute breakfast stop at Big Shanty, Georgia, eight miles up the line. The Great Locomotive Chase is a 1956 American adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the real Great Locomotive Chase that occurred in 1862 during the American Civil War. The Andrews party would later blame their failure on the one-day delay in executing the mission. They were Privates Samuel Robertson, Perry G. Shadrach, Samuel Slavens, and George D. Wilson, Sergeant-Major Marion A. Ross, Sergeant John Scott, and William Campbell, the civilian who had joined the expedition at the last minute. There he halted, apparently to await the arrival of his raiding party. Montgomery County Concert Band-The Great Locomotive Chase, Robert W. Smith Audience Reviews for The Great Locomotive Chase. With them went conductor William Alien Fuller, engineer Jeff Cain, and the foreman of the W & A’s machine shops, Anthony Murphy, who was along on an inspection trip. So far as they knew, there was no alarm out for them. The Ohio Monument dedicated to Andrews' Raiders is located at the Chattanooga National Cemetery. It was midnight when they left the train at Marietta and wangled beds in the town’s two hotels. After adventures that rivaled the locomotive chase itself, eight of the raiders made good their escape. As the Yankee crewmen ambled up to the General and climbed aboard, Andrews casually waved the rest of the raiders into the third boxcar. They made it to the Tennessee River east of Chattanooga, stole a canoe, and floated all the way down the river past Chattanooga to Stevenson, Alabama, where they expected to find Federal troops. All the survivors were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first recipients of that decoration. Be that as it may, the Yankees’ gallant failure was not redeemed by any action on General Mitchel’s part. When he reached the repair crew and heard its story, he began to doubt the deserter theory. This time, the Union is on the side of right, though Southerners aren't vilified. That was a good one, Walter. Their objective, said Andrews, was to burn enough bridges behind them to cripple the Western & Atlantic, then ride their stolen train right on through Chattanooga and westward on the Memphis & Charleston to meet General Mitchel’s division, which meanwhile would have pushed southward across the Tennessee border to Huntsville, Alabama. They had been at another hotel, and the porter had failed to wake them in time. You may also be interested in the following product(s) American Civil War Commanders (1) At Chattanooga it tied into a line from Lynchburg, Virginia, and with the Memphis & Charleston from Memphis. Posing as a Confederate officer, Andrews got within a dozen miles of Bridgeport, Alabama, with two of his men before they tried their bluff once too often and were captured. Obstructions there were. This is a grand ‘commemorative set’, of the Texas and the General, for the Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase, based on the actual Civil War event. They piled aboard, shunted all the freight cars off on the Adairsville siding, and raced off northward, pushing the Texas flat out in reverse. It was now raining steadily. Was this review helpful to you? When the freight arrived, however, it bore on its last car a red flag, indicating that an unscheduled train was following. The remarkable and ironical story of a wild colt that changes owners around the time of the Great Sioux War of 1876. As soon as the lieutenant was out of earshot, the catcalls began. As even the dullest military strategist could see, railroads were the key to the war’s logistics. (AP.BDM00030C). Support with a donation>>. “If anyone interferes,” he ordered, “shoot him, but don’t fire unless you have to.”, At first light, right on schedule, the morning mail train from Atlanta arrived at the Marietta station. “By the sound, it was near and closing in fast. At last came the welcome whistle of the extra’s second section. Boiler water was low and the firewood was gone. A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel. The Great Locomotive Chase was joined. The Great Locomotive Chase After commandeering a Confederate locomotive, heroic Yankee soldiers known as the Andrews Raiders try to bring about an early end to the Civil War by crippling the Southern railroad network. Or perhaps, like Andrews, he “delighted in strategy” rather than a slugging match. Just four minutes later, William Fuller arrived on the scene aboard the Yonah . Perhaps it was simply the man’s make-up. If the tale of the Great Locomotive Chase has a turning point, it was reached here along this deserted stretch of the Western & Atlantic just north of Calhoun, approximately halfway between Big Shanty and Chattanooga. Andrews had focused his spying efforts on the Western & Atlantic Railroad that snaked 138 miles northward from Atlanta through mountainous northern Georgia to Chattanooga. There is a wealth of information on the making of GWTW. He had brought his nineteen men through every anticipated danger and improvised his way through dangers entirely unexpected. The Great Locomotive Chase is an action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney in 1956. The rail they were trying to lift was well loosened, needing but a few more minutes’ effort, and they would be free of pursuit and able to go about their bridge burning in comparative safety. “To be shut up in the dark, while for all we knew the enemy might be concentrating an overwhelming force against us, was exceedingly trying. “With most of us,” explained Dorsey, “the idea of keeping mum and talking as little as possible prevailed. After commandeering a Confederate locomotive, Yankee soldiers try to end the Civil War early by crippling the Southern railroad network. Since the twenty-two Yankees had been captured in civilian clothes well inside Southern territory, there was strong pressure on the Confederate authorities to hang them as spies. Rain pelted down steadily, spilling streams over their banks and turning the roads into quagmires that scotched their hopes of hiring farmers’ wagons to speed the journey. Walt’s adopted hometown of Marceline, Missouri, contacted him that year. But Andrews, despite the pleading of several of his men, refused to permit an ambush assault on the Rebel train, and time ran out. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. Fuller, meanwhile, was setting some kind of track record. Western & Atlantic Railroad #49 "Texas" is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive built in 1856 for the Western & Atlantic Railroad by Danforth, Cooke & Co., best known as the principal pursuit engine in the Great Locomotive Chase, chasing the General after the latter was stolen by Union saboteurs in an attempt to ruin the Confederate rail system during the American Civil War. The thrilling Walt Disney 1956 film, The Great Locomotive Chase, first captured the author's imagination in his childhood and this book is a culmination of a lifelong … Filmed in CinemaScope and in color, the film stars Fess Parker as James J. Andrews, the leader of a group of Union soldiers from various Ohio regiments who volunteered to go behind Confederate lines in civilian clothes, steal a Confederate train north of Atlanta, and drive it back to Union lines in Tennessee, tearing up railroa… To license content, please contact licenses [at] americanheritage.com. To allay further suspicious questioning of their cover story, they had promptly enlisted in a nearby Rebel light artillery unit, hoping to desert at the first opportunity and make their way back to Union territory.). When GWTW was being filmed, Mitchell suggested Kurtz be the technical adviser on the film. “If the Yankees attack Beauregard, he hasn’t powder enough for a threehour fight.” The conductor cautioned him to run slowly and send a flagman ahead at every curve. In reality, the Catoosa locomotive from Calhoun Station had joined the Texas to pursuit the General instead of doing nothing but parking on the side. They dragged the pole car across the gaps and labored on. Fuller simply shunted the two cars off at Resaca and continued northward. Behind nearly every curve the Yankees had tossed crossties onto the track from the supply in their remaining boxcar. For them, the Civil War was still an adventure. The others were to move swiftly into one of the head cars after it was uncoupled from the cars behind. Of the quality and tenacity of the pursuit he knew nothing. Porters were instructed to wake them before dawn. The tie-in point for these vital railroads was Chattanooga, Tennessee, just seventy miles from General Mitchel’s headquarters tent. “I’ll have to go out at once,” Andrews insisted. Ormsby Mitchel, fifty-one and flamboyantly handsome, bubbled with imaginative ideas and bold strategems for bringing down the rebellion. A single-track line, with sidings at all principal stations, it was carried across several major streams on covered wooden bridges and through imposing Chetoogeta Mountain in a long tunnel. James Andrews was found guilty as charged and sentenced to death by hanging. When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power. The Great Locomotive Chase only did so-so business when it was released in the summer of 1956. Thus far James Andrews had been nothing short of brilliant. Listeners become engulfed in the vivid sounds. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The Great Locomotive Chase was released in 1956 and has generally received mixed reviews. “There we were in the heart of the Confederacy, knowing that if we were suspected of anything wrong we could expect death."). General P.G.T. Perhaps, like the rest of the Federal high command in that spring of 1862, he was suddenly overwhelmed by caution. From there they would take the Western & Atlantic’s evening train south to Marietta, Georgia, just above Atlanta. “I can’t describe my feelings at that moment…,” Porter would recall. In the meantime, a dozen of the Yankees were transferred to Knoxville and seven of them, chosen at random, were tried by a military court-not for their attempt on the Western & Atlantic, which could be considered a legitimate military target, but for spying on Confederate military camps. Listeners become engulfed in the vivid sounds. With a violent effort they tore the rail loose and resumed their run for Adairsville. As Corporal William Pittenger remembered it, Andrews summed up their mission by saying, “Boys, we’re going into danger, but for results that can be tremendous.”, When the party started toward Chattanooga, it ran into immediate trouble with the weather. The raiders’ one hope, they realized, was to maintain that they acted under orders and were subject to the rules of war for military prisoners. Above Resaca the Western & Atlantic wound tortuously through rough country, forcing the Confederates aboard the pursuing Texas to proceed carefully, alert for obstructions and ambushes. The conductor who chased Andrews, Capt William A.Fuller lived in Atlanta after the war and he had a daughter named Annie Laurie Fuller. Just four minutes later, William Fuller arrived on the scene aboard the, As Fuller hurried along in the pelting rain, with only foreman Murphy able to keep pace with him, the raiders pulled into the Adairsville station-and found only a local freight waiting on the siding. The Great Locomotive Chase was joined. Setting off northward once more, the three Georgians discovered the break in the telegraph line. Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. Add the first question. The Yankees took seats in one of these coaches, according to Dorsey, “in a sleepy, drowsy manner … indifferent to all surroundings.” Again the count was two short. “On we pressed and pushed,” Puller recounted. Check out our editors' picks for the movies and shows we're excited about this month, like Mortal Kombat, "Them," and Stowaway. “When our strength was nearly gone, we hove in sight of Etowah, and to our great delight the engine was there.” The little Yonah was nothing much as locomotives went, but it was a vast improvement over the pole car. They had to reach the next station, Calhoun, before the Chattanooga train did or they would be hopelessly blocked. Qty * $3.00. If you’re called, be ready to jump out and fight.”. Mitchel was on schedule, Andrews a day behind. Without maps or compasses, most of Andrews’ men wandered aimlessly, and one after another they were stopped and questioned-and seized. Inspired by a Civil War-era train chase, this programmatic work depicts what … After six hours of high adventure, he had his stolen train back. Jeff Yorkas William Campbell, Union soldier ("worth ten in a fight"){actually Campbell was a civilian volunteer} Thus far James Andrews had been nothing short of brilliant. Inspired by the events surrounding the railway between Atlanta and Chattanooga during the early years of the Civil War, Robert W. Smith stages the train chase complete with fascinating textures and effects. “I must be off the first possible minute,” he snapped. I mean run,” he later recalled. The General , however, was rolling steadily northward at its regular pace. “I’ll have to go out at once,” Andrews insisted. On the other side, William Fuller and Anthony Murphy continued to serve the Confederacy until there were no trains left to run. An immense Federal naval force was at the mouth of the Mississippi, threatening New Orleans. You can almost smell the smoke. The raiders dropped a second car in the middle of the covered bridge over the Oostanaula, with the same result. Free subscription >>, Please consider a donation to help us keep this American treasure alive. Linking the eastern and western theaters of war was but one direct line, and tying into that line was but one link to Atlanta, the second most important munitions center (after Richmond) in the Confederacy. At Marietta on Friday morning they would board the first northbound train and commandeer ithe would explain the plan for doing that just beforehand. When the town was securely in Federal hands, he might even push on to Knoxville in eastern Tennessee, where it was understood there were thousands of Union-minded citizens eager for the sight of Yankee soldiers. The pursuers’ immediate problem was finding something to pursue with. Online reviewers have written 11 reviews, giving The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) an average rating of 60%. Traveling in groups of three or four, the Yankees plodded along the sodden roads, slipping into woodsheds and barns to rest or paying for food and shelter at homesteads. Fifty feet away, sentries at a large Confederate training camp watched the strange performance in puzzlement. “My duty ended here,” he reported matter of factly. The pursuers’ immediate problem was finding something to pursue with. Annie Laurie took some of the pictures that accompany the article. All of them wore civilian clothes and were armed with pistols. At his side, sharing his vision, was a mysterious civilian named James J. Andrews. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. More than that, you’re going to see the Stars and Stripes waving again over the ground this scaffold stands on.”. Read more >>, The magazine was forced to suspend print publication in 2013, but a group of volunteers saved the archives and relaunched it in digital form in 2017. “Good-bye, Dorsey!” “Dorsey, you’re a goner!” And a final shot from the next tent: “Leave us a lock of your hair, Dorsey!”. Concert Band sheet music book by Robert W. Smith: Belwin Music at Sheet Music Plus. Search for "The Great Locomotive Chase" on Amazon.com, Title: They were wanted, it was explained, to operate a captured Confederate train. Like its two predecessors, it was ordered by Andrews to pull on through the station to unblock his northbound train. According to Pittenger, he remarked to his fellow prisoners, “Boys, I have often thought I’d like to see what’s on the other side of Jordan.” Late in April, Andrews was tried as a spy by a military court in Chattanooga, and on May 31-after a review by Secretary of War Leroy P. Walker and President Jefferson Davis- the verdict was announced. Standing on the gallows on June 18, Wilson spoke the last words for all of them: “The seven of us have been condemned here as spies. The oldest of them was thirty-two and the youngest eighteen; their average age was twenty-four. Again he took to shanks’ mare to reach the head of the tangle, two miles away. Like its two predecessors, it was ordered by Andrews to pull on through the station to unblock his northbound train. Trains left to run conductor Puller reported a roundup of the head of the Great Locomotive Chase is an original..., whoever they were Kentuckians seeking to join the Rebel army—did not work this south! 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