| From the Iredell Express {Statesville, N.
C.} |
| December 17, 1863 |
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| Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
| The following, from the late
report of the President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
will show the attentions paid to that great thoroughfare of supply and
communication of the enemy, by our military in that quarter: |
| The large and costly machine
shops and engine houses at Martinsburg were greatly damaged --
fourteen locomotives and tenders, and a large number of cars, much
machinery from the shops, and portions of nine additional engines,
were taken from the road and transported by animal power over
turnpikes to Southern railways, and thus entirely lost to the company. |
| Forty-two locomotives and
tenders, three hundred and eighty-six cars, chiefly coal, twenty-three
bridges, (including three between Cumberland and Wheeling, three on
the North Western Virginia road, and the great bridge at Harper's
Ferry,) embracing one hundred and twenty seven spans, and a total
length of four thousand seven hundred and thirty feet, were also
destroyed or damaged to a great extent by fire, and numerous engines
and cars were thrown into the Potomac, and Opequon and other streams.
Thirty six and a half miles of track fixtures removed for use on
Southern roads. The lines of telegraph for one hundred and two miles,
two water stations, and much other valuable property were destroyed. |
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