William Pittenger, a participant in the Andrews Raid, wrote several narrative accounts of the event. While Keaton casts the Confederates as the heroes of his narrative, The Great Locomotive Chase focuses on the raiders and portrays their leader, James J. The Disney film was produced nearly thirty years after The General (1927), a silent-film version of the story by comedian Buster Keaton, and offers a far more serious and straightforward telling of these events. On April 12, 1862, Union raiders staged a daring seizure of a Confederate train pulled by the General, a locomotive headed north from Big Shanty (present-day Kennesaw, in Cobb County) toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Union lines. To date it is the last of several films depicting the Andrews Raid of 1862, which took place in north Georgia during the Civil War (1861-65). The Great Locomotive Chase is an action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney in 1956.
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