Alternate title: | Now on exhibition at Union Depot, Chattanooga, Tenn.--27 The "General," used by Andrews' Raiders |
Summary: | "The General" steam engine, Chattanooga, Tennessee, circa 1930-1935. Caption reads: "The Story of The 'General'. In the National Cemetery are buried James J. Andrews and his companions, who captured an Engine at Big Shanty off the Western & Atlantic Railway in an attempt to burn bridges and cut the Confederate Army from the base of supplies. They were overtaken. Eight were executed as spies, six were paroled and eight escaped form prison. The famous engine 'General' which was captured is kept as a Memorial in the Union Station at Chattanooga. A tablet tells the story on the raid." Postmark date: November 25, 1935; Postcard number: 5823; Message included. Message reads: "11-24-1935 - Sunday Evening. About thirty three years ago you gave me a thrill to be remembered in reading the story of Andrews and the General. Today we saw it, a well-served memento of a sorrowful event. The canon ball or shell you gave me rests on a polished base containing the letter telling of its firing on my office desk. The story has been told to hundreds. The Linns" |
Provider: | T.H. Payne |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Printing place: | North America |
United States of America |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | Tennessee |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Chattanooga |
Temporal subject: |
1931-1940
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Tennessee |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Chattanooga |
Topical subjects: | Railroad locomotives |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | National Trust Library Postcard Collection |
Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
War, Military |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
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