| From the New York Times |
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| June 26, 1861 |
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| Property Destroyed at Martinsburgh |
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| From the Baltimore Clipper of Tuesday {June
25, Tuesday} |
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Intelligence reached this city yesterday
evening that the Confederate forces at Martinsburgh, Va., under
command of Col. JACKSON, had on Friday night and Saturday {June
21 and 22} last destroyed forty-eight locomotives and a large
number of cars, in all nearly three hundred, belonging to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. |
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Of the locomotives destroyed, five were
first-class passenger engines, and of the cars only five were
passenger; the balance were gondola, coal and house cars. A large lot
of coal contained in some of the cars was confiscated. The destruction
was commenced by burning, and what could not be burned was otherwise
destroyed. One of the engines, previous to being fired, was wrapped in
an American flag. |
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The property destroyed was at the company's depot, at
Martinsburgh, and the destruction the more devilish, from the fact
that the bridges at Harper's Ferry and other points being destroyed,
they could not be used for transportation from the East. The value of
the property will reach considerably over half a million of dollars,
most of the engines destroyed having cost $10,000 each. |
| Col. JOHNSTON is encamped at a place
called Bunker Hill, about nine miles East of Martinsburgh, with a a
strong force, and Col. JACKSON is on the west side with a small force.
Gen. PATTERSON is still at Williamsport, awaiting the arrival of
harness for his wagon horses, which was daily expected. With this
exception he was fully prepared for an advance movement, which it was
thought would take place in a few days. |
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