|
Captured Union
Locomotives
|
| Name |
Number |
Type |
Date |
Builder |
Weight |
Cylinders |
Driver Diam |
| Captured from Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad by Jackson in June 1861 and hauled to Confederate
railroads by Capt. Thomas Sharp |
| |
33 |
0x8x0 |
1853 |
B&O |
29 |
19"x22" |
43" |
| |
34 |
0x8x0 |
1853 |
B&O |
29 |
19"x22" |
43" |
| |
50 |
0x6x0 |
12/1847 |
Baldwin |
17 |
13.5"x18" |
43" |
| |
76 |
0x8x0 |
9/1851 |
B&O |
29 |
20"x22" |
43" |
| |
83 |
0x8x0 |
10/1851 |
B&O |
29 |
20"x22" |
43" |
| |
126 |
4x4x0 |
1/1853 |
Norris |
|
14"x24" |
60" |
| |
188 |
4x4x0 |
11/1858 |
B&O |
27 |
16"x22" |
60" |
| |
199 |
4x6x0 |
11/1853 |
Denmead |
30 |
19"x20" |
50" |
| |
204 |
4x6x0 |
3/1854 |
Denmead |
30 |
19"x20" |
50" |
| |
208 |
4x4x0 |
11/1854 |
Murray & Hazlehurst |
28 |
15"x20" |
60" |
| |
225 |
4x6x0 |
8/1857 |
Denmead |
30 |
18"x24" |
50" |
| |
226 |
4x6x0 |
9/1857 |
Denmead |
30 |
18"x24" |
50" |
| |
231 |
4x4x0 |
8/1857 |
Mason |
27 |
16"x22" |
60" |
| |
235 |
4x4x0 |
8/1857 |
Mason |
28 |
16"x22" |
60" |
|
| Captured at Harpers Ferry |
50 |
| Captured at Duffields |
33, 34, 76, 83, 225 |
| Captured at Martinsburg |
126, 188, 199, 204, 208, 226, 231, 235 |
|
| Confederate Names |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
Gladiator was the B&O name, the Confederate name
is not yet known (then used in CS ironclad Neuse) |
| 50 |
|
| 76 |
Orion |
| 83 |
General Price, Walter Raleigh |
| 126 |
Stonewall Jackson |
| 188 |
Lady Davis, Calvin Graves |
| 199 |
Dixie |
| 204 |
|
| 208 |
General Huger |
| 225 |
Hercules |
| 226 |
General Robert E. Lee |
| 231 |
Colonel A. C. Myers, Holden Rhodes |
| 235 |
Powhatan, President Jefferson Davis |
|
|
|
| These are the most complete reports in the press
that I have found of the Confederate removal of the B&O locomotives.
At least 80 cars were taken to Richmond.
|
| A QM order for transportation lists No. 222
(225?),
along with 83 and 231.
|
| |
| Captured from McClellan on the Peninsula in
June 1862 |
| Exeter |
|
(Confederate name: General Pettigrew) |
|
(Purchased from Boston & Maine RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1850 |
Hinkley & Drury |
21 |
15"x20" |
54"(66"?) |
| Spark |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
6/1862 |
Norris |
|
15"x24" |
60" |
| Speedwell |
|
(Confederate name: Chickahominy) |
|
(Purchased from Old Colony &
Fallon RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1859 |
Lawrence |
|
15"x22" |
60" |
| Ontario |
|
(Purchased from Fitchburg RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1848 |
Hinkley & Drury |
|
16"x20" |
46" |
| Wyandank |
|
(Confederate name: Vulcan) |
|
(Purchased from Long Island RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1853 |
Baldwin |
|
16"x20" |
61" |
| Lincoln |
|
(Purchased from Fitchburg RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1848 |
Hinkley & Drury |
|
16"x20" |
46"(54"?) |
|
| 80 cars were also lost, with some or all added
to the Confederate inventory
|
| |
| Captured from Pope at Second Manassas in
August 1862 |
| Hero |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
7/1862 |
Norris |
27 |
16"x24" |
54" |
| C. B. Ferguson |
|
(Confederate name: Atlas) |
|
(Purchased from Farnum & Durant) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
9/1856 |
Lawrence |
24 |
15.5"x24" |
54" |
| D. C. McCallum |
|
(Confederate name: Pocahontas) |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
5/1862 |
Mason |
|
15"x22" |
60" |
| Job Terry |
|
(Purchased from Old Colony & Fall
River RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1846 |
Hinkley & Drury |
21 |
15"x20" |
60" (54"?) |
| |
| 136 |
|
(Purchased (?) from Baltimore & Ohio RR) |
|
0x8x0 |
4/1853 |
Ross Winans |
38 |
19"x24" |
43" |
|
| 295 cars were ordered destroyed. Many were saved
by the Confederates
|
| |
| Captured on the Orange & Alexandria RR
shortly before Second Manassas in August 1862 |
| Red Bird |
|
(Confederate name: Mars) |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
7/1862 |
New Jersey |
26 |
16"x24" |
54" |
| President |
|
(Confederate name: General Stuart) |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1862 |
Rogers |
23 |
16"x22" |
60" |
| Panther |
|
(Purchased from Boston & Worcester
RR) |
|
|
0x8x0 |
1843 |
Hinkley & Drury |
22 |
13.5"x20" |
36" |
|
| 60 cars were ordered burned at or en route to
Aquia Creek
|
| |
| Captured near Fredericksburg, August 31, 1862 |
|
|
|
4x4x0 |
1846 |
Baldwin |
|
15.5"x20" |
42" |
|
| 57 cars were also lost at this time |
| This was probably the locomotive mentioned in
NA, QMR 10-27A-62.
Washington was sold to the Richmond & Petersburg RR. |
| |
| Union army reports confirm the
destruction of 5 locomotives and 147 cars at Bristoe Station, on the Union
side of the Orange & Alexandria RR. |
| Locomotives captured in Northern
Virginia in the summer of 1862 were divided up among at least 3 Virginia
railroads.
|
| A September 18, 1862 article says
that 3 locomotives had been captured near Stevenson, Ala. and were very
valuable to the Confederate Army. |
| A May 9, 1863 report of the
Stoneman raid says that the Virginia Central RR locomotive Augusta was
captured by the raiders. The locomotive had previously been captured by
the North, in 1862, and promptly recaptured by the South. |
| In December, 1864, the Piedmont RR
reports owning locomotive Hercules. |
An OR telegram and a December
newspaper article reported the capture of at least 2 locomotives and 28
cars on the Memphis & Charleston RR. A January 1865 newspaper report
says that Forrest captured two locomotives and 60 cars on the Nashville
& Chattanooga RR. A December 12th report says that four locomotives
had been captured and were running on the Nashville & Decatur Road. A
newspaper report says that the Forrest captures (the 2 and 60) had been
transferred to the Nashville & Decatur Road. All of these locomotives
(between 2 and 6) were used to support Hood during the Nashville campaign.
They were not able to be transferred south after the Nashville battle
because of a destroyed bridge at Columbia, Tenn.
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 2, Page 636 |
| NP, RS 12-8-64 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 2, Page 653 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 2, Page 656 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 1, Page 657 |
| NP,
CE 12-12-64 |
| B31,
RR 12-16-64 |
| NP,
AC 1-10A-65 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 1, Page 652 |
|
NP, MR
4-6-1911 |
|
| Though not quite Union locomotives,
the seizure of 5 Louisville & Nashville RR locomotives on July 4, 1861
added their capacity to the Confederate war effort. On September 18, 1861,
another 11 locomotives were captured by Confederate forces, but there is
no indication in the L&N RR records that they were retained by the
Confederacy.
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