| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| July 12, 1863 |
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| From Northern Papers |
| Destruction of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
| A gentleman who left Cumberland on Tuesday
states that the Rebels had concentrated a number of their marauding
bands in and about Old Town and Paw-Paw tunnel, and were engaged in
the pious work of tearing up the railroads down towards Martinsburg.
They are burning every bridge, blowing up culverts, and
systematically, rod by rod, for all that distance, tearing up and
burning ties and iron. They have not thus far made their appearance
above New Creek in the direction of Grafton or Buchanan. We have three
or four regiments of infantry at Cumberland. |
| The Rebels, not content with ripping up
the railroad, have burned all the canal boats they could take between
Williamsport and Cumberland, have cut the canal in several places, and
blown up and otherwise destroyed the locks. At Williamsport they
destroyed a whole fleet of boats. |
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