Wilson W. Brown, a Medal of Honor winner buried here, joined the Andrews Raid to wreck Confederate supply lines. On April 12, 1862, the raiders captured the locomotive The General at Big Shanty, Georgia, and Brown served as its engineer. After the General ran out of fuel, he was captured, then escaped on October 16 and made his way back to Union lines after enduring great hardships. Among the Andrews Raiders, James J. Andrews, William M. Campbell, Samuel Robertson, Marion A. Ross, John M. Scott, Charles P. Shadrach, Samuel Slavens, and George D. Wilson were hanged by the Confederates in June 1862; Wilson W. Brown, Daniel A. Dorsey, Martin J. Hawkins, William J. Knight, John R. Porter, John A. Wilson, John Wollam, and Mark Wood escaped on October 16, 1862; William Bensinger, Robert Buffum, Elihu H. Mason, Jacob Parrott, William Pittenger, and William H. Reddick were paroled on March 17, 1863; and James Smith and Samuel Llewellyn were discovered before the raid.