NP, CC 5/13/1861

From the Charleston Courier
 
May 13, 1861
 
A Skirmish with Camp Butler
Western Trains Stopped -- Horses and Beeves Captured, Etc.
Annapolis, May 10
 
   ***** The Baltimore train was stopped by the Virginia troops ten miles West of Frederick {probably at Point of Rocks, on the Baltimore & Ohio RR}, and examined. The same thing will be done to all Western trains. Four hundred Virginians are strongly posted near Frederick.
   A train of Western cars, with a lot of horses and a hundred beeves, bound to Baltimore, was captured at Harper's Ferry.
{Both were precursors to Jackson's haul the next month.}

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