the events that led to the Medal of Honor award... was a train heist

At the height of the Civil War, a smuggler-turned-Union spy came up with a daring plan. Leading a team of two dozen Union soldiers from Ohio, he would sneak behind enemy lines, steal a Confederate train, and use it to destroy some of the South’s limited railroads, hurting the ability to resupply Chattanooga as the Union army prepared to advance on the city.

Andrews’ raiders stole a train known as “the General” and used it to tear up tracks and damage telegraph wires inside through Georgia and Tennessee as they rode toward Chattanooga. 

The bold, wild plot eventually came to be known as the “Great Locomotive Chase,” and resulted in the first Medals of Honor being awarded to 19 of the 24 raiders.

Now more than a dozen living Medal of Honor recipients and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society will recreate the Great Locomotive Chase

The chase, which later inspired Buster Keaton’s film ‘The General’ and a 1956 Disney film, involved multiple trains, two dozen Union operatives, Confederate troops and one very dedicated train conductor.

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/medal-of-honor-great-locomotive-chase/

I posted about the train that chased the General: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-civil-war-locomotive-texas-was-in.html