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English: 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.
  1. Mark Wood, Private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry
  2. William J. Knight, Private, Company E, 21st Ohio Infantry
  3. Daniel A. Dorsey, Corporal, Company H, 33rd Ohio Infantry
  4. Robert Buffum, Private, Company H, 21st Ohio Infantry
  5. John A. Wilson, Private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry
  6. William Bensinger, Private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry
  7. William Reddick, Corporal, Company B, 33rd Ohio Infantry
  8. John Wollam, Private, Company C, 33rd Ohio Infantry
  9. William A. Fuller, train conductor who chased the raiders
  10. Wilson W. Brown, Private, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry
  11. Samuel Slavens, Private, Company E, 33rd Ohio Infantry
  12. Elihu H. Mason, Sergeant, Company K, 21st Ohio Infantry
  13. Martin J. Hawkins, Corporal, Company A, 33rd Ohio Infantry
  14. Marian (or Marion) A. Ross, Sergeant Major, 2nd Ohio Infantry
  15. John R. Porter, Private, Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry
  16. Jacob Parrott, Private, Company K, 33rd Ohio Infantry
  17. John M. Scott, Sergeant, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry
  18. Andrew Murphy, train machinist who chased the raiders
  19. William Pittinger, Sergeant Major, 21st Ohio Infantry
Date published 1907
Source 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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