Selasa, 05 September 2017

The Great Train Chase of 1862

Two trains, one track, and 87 miles of hot Georgia pursuit. Union Maj. Gen. Ormsby “Old Stars” Mitchel was, befitting the nickname, an astronomer at the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N.Y., when the war broke out and he resigned his position to go fight the Rebels. The 51-year-old Mitchel was new to neither the military …

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