| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| October 9, 1862 |
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| Yankee Engines |
| Five engines, captured by our troops in
the neighborhood of Manassas and Warrenton, arrived in Lynchburg on
Friday by way of the Orange {& Alexandria}
railroad. Three of the five were not at all damaged; the other two are
slightly injured, but can be soon put in running order. Their value
cannot be now less than $20,000 a piece. Extraordinary exertions had to
be made to complete the trestle work across the Rappahannock river, to
admit their passage over the stream, and it was finished just in time to
get them out of the way of the Yankees in their late raid to Warrenton A
number of cars have also been brought across the Rappahannock, and are
now safe from their former owners. |
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