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One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry |
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John H. Worsham |
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Company F, 21st Virginia Regiment |
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New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1912 |
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| p. 65 |
| ***** While we were camped
around Winchester, he {Jackson} was diligently at work getting
everything out of reach of the enemy, in case he should be compelled to
leave; even the locomotives and cars, that were captured at Martinsburg,
were sent to the rear. Because the valley pike was such an excellent
road, he could do this. He sent parties of men along the pike, who cut
down trees, and used the timber in bracing the bridges to enable them to
endure great weight. When everything was ready, large teams of horses
and mules were hitched to the locomotives and cars at Martinsburg, and
they were hauled to Strasburg, a distance of about fifty miles, where
they were put on the Manassas Gap railroad for the use of the
Confederacy. In this way many locomotives and cars were saved. During
this movement, I saw at one time five cars on their way to Strasburg. |
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