It was a rainy Saturday morning — April 12, 1862 — when a group of suspicious men boarded a northbound Western & Atlantic train at Marietta, Georgia. The men held tickets to varying points along the line, trying to make it seem as though they were not a part of one large group.
As the train wound its way around Kennesaw Mountain, the conductor alerted passengers, “Big Shanty. Twenty Minutes for breakfast!”
The train ground to a halt and most passengers disembarked to grab a quick breakfast at the Lacy Hotel, a two-story eating house the Western & Atlantic built in the years before the Civil War.
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