Great Locomotive Chase Medal of Honor Donated

From the April 5th Sacramento (Ca) Bee "Civil War Medal of Honor Donated to Kennesaw, Georgia, Museum" by The Southern Museum.

A ceremony was held April 12th when a rare Civil War-era Medal of Honor was donated to Kennesaw's Southern Museum of the Civil War and Locomotive History.  The Waggoner family of Ohio, descendants of Sgt. John M. Scott, a participant in the April 12, 1862 Great Locomotive Chase of Andrews' Raiders.

Union soldiers seized the Confederate locomotive General and headed for Chattanooga, tearing up tracks along the way.  The Medal had previously been on loan to the museum and now will go on permanent display in the museum's extensive collection of the event.

Someone Stop That Train.  --Old Secesh