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.
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The oft told adventure is still thrilling. Regrettably, the posterization of a train at the beginning of the article is historically inaccurate as locomotive and rolling stock shown came into existence decades after the Civil War. 
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