 a train. Brad Quinlan has researched the Union raid. 22 men dispatched to steal a train in Marietta, Georgia and run it north, tearing up tracks and cutting telegraph wires as they went. It would have cut off extremely important supplies getting to General Lee's army up in Virginia. As depicted on the silent screen by the great Buster Keaton, the Confederates gave chase and finally caught the runaway locomotive. The raiders fled but were soon caught.