The Civil War Great Locomotive Chase is the true story of ... Makowicki, a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, told a reporter for the news service. “They did this because ...

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In what was one of the earliest special operations in U.S. Army history, Union soldiers dressed as civilians infiltrated the Confederacy and hijacked the General Locomotive in Georgia before ...