America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Stealing a Locomotive

3 pages in this part of America First.

Stealing a Locomotive

One day, in April, 1862, a passenger train was on its way from Marietta, Georgia, bound North.

Stealing a Locomotive: Andrews

Their only peril seemed to be the telegraph wires, by which information could be sent on ahead, and their flight arrested. Therefore, they…

Stealing a Locomotive: Confederate

Andrews now uncoupled the rear box-car, hoping thus to wreck his pursuers by a collision. The Confederates saw the danger in time to slow…

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