OT Bonus - The First Medal of Honor Ever Recorded

[Bob Womack]

By the way, the other locomotive involved in the chase, the Texas, operated by Confederates to catch the General, also survived the war. In 1907 she was dontaed to the City of Atlanta and since 1927 she has been housed in the basement of the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama , a large, city-owned, cylindrical painting coupled with a layout of the battle containing hundreds of figures on scenery in the foreground, that lives in Atlanta. I visited in the '60s. By the end of the century, the building that housed the cyclorama was damaged by a storm and developed leaks that threatened the display, so actions were undertaken to rehouse the whole she-bangy. The first action in 2015 was to move the locomotive to the North Carolina Transportation Museum at the former Southern Railway's historic Spencer Shops. There a private contractor lovingly restored her to her 1880s appearance.


The locomotive and the cyclorama have been reunited at the new Atlanta History Center in Buckhead. I'm going to assume she's stuffed and mounted as well.



Bob