| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| November 13, 1862 |
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| From Jackson's Army |
| (Correspondence of the Columbia Guardian) |
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| Camp Barnes, Va., October 27 |
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| For the last few days our
corps has been engaged largely in tearing up and burning the famous
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Of this we have demolished about twenty
miles between the Ferry and North Mountain. Of the Harper Ferry and
Winchester {Winchester & Potomac} Railroad
the Yankees tore up a part and we the remainder. The Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad is a splendidly constructed, double track, finely graded
road; the most splendidly constructed on we have ever seen. It
requires about as much labor to tear it up as would construct an
ordinary road. Our division has just returned from one of the
road-razing excursions back to our former camp -- Camp Barnes. |
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