NP, RD 9/16/1861

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
September 16, 1861
 
   The Federal dispatches from Point of Rocks, Maryland, September 11, furnish the subjoined intelligence:
   Union men from Martinsburg on Saturday report that the rebels have taken up the entire track of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad from that town to North Mountain, a distance of nine miles, and transported the rails, &c., to Winchester, for the extension of the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire railroad, from Strasburg to that point. The track torn up was lately relaid by the company.
   At Duffield's Station, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the rebels were busily engaged in further plundering the road of some seven or eight of the new first-class locomotives, which they were taking down for transportation to Winchester. The locomotives had but recently been put upon the route. Some of them are of the heaviest kind, and were probably spared by the rebels in their recent vandal acts of destruction on account of the adaptability of these engines for the transportation of troop trains in Virginia.

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