NP, RD 9/16B/1861

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
September 16, 1861
 
Camp Defiance
Jefferson Co., Va., Sept. 8th, 1861
 
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   We are busy here in scouring the country, while the militia move away such engines on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as may be deemed valuable to Virginia. Your readers may not be aware of the fact, that the President of this road holds the indemnifying bond of the U. S. for all damage which may come to it while used by the despotism as a military road. Hence, every dollar's worth of property we can destroy belonging to this road is so much taken from the pocket of the U. S., if that Government escapes the wreck towards which it is now hastening long enough to stand a suit for damages.

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