| From the Daily Intelligencer
(Wheeling, Va.) |
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| March 24, 1862 |
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| From Winchester |
| Camp Shields |
| Winchester, Va., March 17 |
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| Editors Intelligencer: |
| ***** |
| At 12 o'clock we were again on
our way, stopping at Sleepy Creek Station until five o'clock P. M., when
we again moved off slowly, reaching Black Creek bridge at 11 o'clock,
where we disembarked from the cars, and were soon resting from the
fatigue of a two days' run on a rough railroad. The next morning,
Monday, March 15th, we pitched our tents on the high bluff bank of the
Potomac, to await further orders. The bridge across Black Creek was an
arch bridge one hundred feet long, and was totally destroyed by drilling
a hole in the east side and pouring in fifty pounds of powder. This did
the work completely. ***** |
| Early on Tuesday morning we
were suddenly and rather unexpectedly ordered into line with all our
accoutrements, including knapsacks, and in a few minutes we were on the
march, following the Railroad to the east. ***** The Railroad for eight
miles was torn up, and taken away by the rebels, and the track for five
miles and a half west of Martinsburg, is strewn with the remains of a
portion of the cars and engines, destroyed last spring. |
| ***** We halted at sundown at
the Big Spring, two miles east of town on the Winchester pike. On Monday
morning, at 7 o'clock we received orders to march in twenty minutes, and
in that time were on a forced march to Winchester. We got along bravely
the road being smooth and level except an occasional rut, plowed out by
the engines, taken out here by Jackson's forces. The citizens informed
me that the rebels took engines out the pike, with as many as sixty
horses hitched to a single locomotive. |
| ***** |
| Serg't Moore |
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