TRAIN medal of Andrews Raid April 12 1862

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''{steam engine on side of the medal, and Captain William A Fuller on the flipside}.

A civil war civilian spy named James Andrews offered to take a small group Union soldiers across enemy lines to Atlanta to steal a train and run it back up north while destroying telegraph lines and railroad tracks on the way all along the important rail corridor of the Western and Atlantic Railroad . On April 7 1862 he and twenty-two volunteers put the plan in action and started traveling south. On the morning of April 12 they boarded a northbound train and hijacked the engine and three empty boxcars it at Big Shanty, today's Kennesaw.

Southern railroad men, including William Fuller, pursued them immediately and managed to stay hot on their tracks, thereby denying them the time to perform any meaningful acts of sabotage. Eventually southern forces caught up with the raiders and rounded them up. Eight of the twenty, including Andrews, were executed as spies, the others escaped or were exchanged.

This medal was commissioned by the Georgia Civil War Centennial Commission and struck by the Medallic Art Company of New York. The mintage is not known.

Sourced from Davis, Stephen. "Andrews Raid." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 05 June 2014. Web. 04 November 2014.''

googled and quote this info from internet, neat story,

Bradley