Image: Andrews Raiders

Description: Participants the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War. A party led by James J. Andrews (Andrews' Raiders) hijacked a Confederate train and navigated it northwards, chased by the train conductor. Several of the raiders became the first recipients of the Medal of Honor. Seven of the raiders (James J. Andrews, William Campbell, Samuel Llewellyn, Samuel Robertson, Perry Shadrack, James Smith, George D. Wilson) are not pictured. Mark Wood, Private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry William J. Knight, Private, Company E, 21st Ohio Infantry Daniel A. Dorsey, Corporal, Company H, 33rd Ohio Infantry Robert Buffum, Private, Company H, 21st Ohio Infantry John A. Wilson, Private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry William Bensinger, Private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry William Reddick, Corporal, Company B, 33rd Ohio Infantry John Wollam, Private, Company C, 33rd Ohio Infantry William A. Fuller, train conductor who chased the raiders Wilson W. Brown, Private, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry Samuel Slavens, Private, Company E, 33rd Ohio Infantry Elihu H. Mason, Sergeant, Company K, 21st Ohio Infantry Martin J. Hawkins, Corporal, Company A, 33rd Ohio Infantry Marian (or Marion) A. Ross, Sergeant Major, 2nd Ohio Infantry John R. Porter, Private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry Jacob Parrott, Private, Company K, 33rd Ohio Infantry John M. Scott, Sergeant, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry Andrew Murphy, train machinist who chased the raiders William Pittinger, Sergeant Major, 21st Ohio Infantry
Title: Andrews Raiders
Credit: Beyer, Walter F.; Oscar Frederick Keydel (1907) Deeds of Valor, Volume 1, Detroit: Perrien-Keydel Company, p. p. 17 Retrieved on 13 April 2010.
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