Whistles blaring, soldiers shouting, and the sounds of gunshots rang in the ears of people at the Big Shanty Train Station as The General, a Confederate supply locomotive, was being hijacked and stolen by Union raiders. The Great Locomotive Chase, or Andrews’ Raid, was a vital element of the Civil War because of the Unions daring seizure of the Confederate steam-engine The General led by James Andrews, along with twenty-two volunteers. The Great Locomotive Chase was a steam-engine pursuit in the Civil War and was a vital part of the rivalry between the Northern Union and the Southern Confederation.

Defeating the Union in The Great Locomotive Chase was a tremendous victory for the Confederate states in the Civil War. This was such a great victory for the Confederate nation because the Union had been very stealthy in terms of getting on the General and hijacking it, and the southerners noticed it well before the raiders expected them to, throwing off the entire operation. The northern raiders had planned to be far down the tracks before the southern soldiers had even noticed that their supply train was gone, but they had failed. The thieves were also planning to rip up the rails so they could not be pursued, but the pursuers had already caught up to them. The Confederacy kept a steady pursuit of the Union raiders, resulting in victory. …show more content…
The day the chase occurred, it was raining a lot, and that helped to extinguish the fire, but not all the way. Luckily, the pursuers were close behind the raiders, and they were there to put it all the way out. Because the hunters were so close to the hunted, the northern plan could not work and they could not stop the south once and for all. Since the northerners’ plan did not work, the southerners quickly caught up to them and captured the