 who early in the Civil War volunteered for a daring mission deep behind Confederate lines. We're going to go into enemy territory. We're going to steal a what? A train. Brad Quinlan has researched the Union raid. Twenty-two 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.