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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Work of the Ordnance Bureau of the war Department of the Confederate States , 1861 -5 . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
Helped capture engine General.
from Richmond, Va., Times-dispatch, December 29, 1909.
Anthony Murphy, had part in wild race during Civil war.
His exploit one of famous incidents of conflict between States.
Atlanta, Ga., December 28, 1909.
Anthony Murphy, aged eighty years, a pioneer citizen of the South and one of the two men who pursued and captured the famous engine, General, when the latter had been seized and carried off from Marietta, Ga., by Federal raiders during the Civil War, died here to-day.
Murphy was born in Ireland, and came to this country when twenty-six years old. He became one of the constructors of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, but when the war broke out entered the Confederate service, and, owing to his skill in mechanics, was assigned by Governor Brown, father of the present Governor, to assemble men to make guns.
On April 12, 1862, the Federal secret service arranged to seize a train at Marietta, cut off the engine, run it from Big