| From the Wilmington Journal |
| June 2, 1864 |
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| A friend has left with us a
rather curious piece of Yankee iron-mongery, weighing some six pounds,
we should think. It is a sort of double hook employed in tearing up
rails, and was left on their hasty retreat from the line of the
Petersburg and Weldon Railroad {Petersburg RR}.
It consists of two parallel bars of iron, about an inch and a quarter in
diameter, seven or eight inches long, hooked at the ends and joined
together at top in a half circle, the whole being nearly in the form a
capital U. |
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