(October 2002) Enlarge Interpretive marker at hanging site

Don Worth

(May 2013) Enlarge Unfortunately for them, the raiders' luck remained bad; Ringgold was having a Saturday militia muster and soon mounted and armed militiamen swarmed over the countryside quickly capturing Andrews and all of his men, including 2 who had overslept and missed the train at Big Shanty and 2 more who never even made it to the rendezvous because they had been virtually impressed into the Confederate army! After many moves and a couple of escapes and attempted escapes, they were all either hanged like Andrews himself, successful in their escapes, or paroled as prisoners-of-war. Today beneath an Ohio monument topped by an 1880's version of the engine they stole, Andrews and the others who were executed rest in Chattanooga's National Cemetery
 
Andrews Raiders (Ohio's Tribute) hmdb.org
 
James Neel

(1984) Enlarge The Ohio Monument
 
Mike Stroud

(1984) Enlarge James Andrews grave at Chattanooga, TN. The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army stole a train  (The General) in an effort to disrupt the vital Western & Atlantic Railroad (W&A), which ran from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were pursued by other locomotives (The Texas, chiefly) and the raiders were eventually captured, with some being executed as spies (Andrews). Some of Andrews' Raiders became the very first recipients of the now known "Medal of Honor"

Mike Stroud

(May 2013) Enlarge The "survivors" of the raid are the notable locomotive engines at the heart of the story, General and Texas. Both survived the war, though the General was badly damaged when Hood blew up his ammunition train in the Atlanta rail yards. General was rebuilt and updated several times, and one wonders just how much of her can possibly be original. Texas barely escaped being scrapped in the early Twentieth Century after long service and a name change, but was fortunately donated to the city of Atlanta. After more than a decade of neglect outside in a city park, Texas was properly restored and moved to the basement (now the lobby) of the Atlanta Cyclorama building in Grant Park where she sits today
 
James Neel