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The Train Robbery That Almost Won the Civil War
SOUTHERN STRATEGY
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast
Union soldiers paid with their lives for their failed theft of a locomotive—and became America’s first Medal of Honor winners for their heroics.
Marc Wortman
Published
Jun. 3 2017
12:15AM EDT
Marc Wortman
marc.wortman@sbcglobal.net
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