| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| June 5, 1862 |
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| The Stolen Engines |
| Up to last evening nothing had
been heard of the three locomotives stolen on the {Memphis
&} Ohio railroad. It has been asked why the stock on this
road had not been removed from it to a safer locality? This was a
matter over which the directors of the road had no power; they were
entirely under military orders on the subject. It is supposed that the
men who ran off with the engines did so because, while the road was in
use, they were exempt from the operation of the conscription law; when
the rolling stock came to be removed they would come under its
provisions; to take the locomotives with them was to ensure themselves
a favorable reception. |
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