Later that day in disguises the infiltrated the train yard and Commander the Train named The General and took it North destroying a lot of telegram lines and Railroad on the way North.
James J. AndrewsImage from Internet Archive Book Image
Destroying the telegram lines while they were heading north there was no way that the Confederates could radio ahead and send a signal telling people what has happened.
It wasn't long after they commandeer the general that Peter James Bracket got a hold of the locomotive the Texas and pursued after them.
After 87 mile chase the general lost power just north of Ringgold Georgia and Andrew and his Raiders scattered, he was captured soon afterwards and identified as the leader
He was court-martialed in Chattanooga and sentenced to hang in one week as a spy. Andrews escaped from Swim's jail on June 1st but quickly recaptured the next day. On June 7th he was taken to Atlanta ahead of the advancing Union Army by train over the same tracks that he used during the raid. Andrews was ineptly hanged at about 5:00 that afternoon near the present day intersection of 3rd and Juniper St N.E. Andrews, body was temporarily buried at the site of the execution. His remans were removed to the Chattanooga National Cemetery on October 16, 1887, and a gravestone and monument to the raid was erected near the Ohio Memorial ( Section H, Grave # 12982) 
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