| From the Staunton Spectator and General
Advertiser (Staunton, Va.) |
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| November 4, 1862 |
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| The Destruction of Roads |
| There have been indications
that our army below Winchester has changed, or is about changing, its
locality. During their sojourn in the lower Valley, our forces
effectually destroyed the Baltimore & Ohio and the Winchester
& Potomac Railroads. The Baltimore road was torn up from the
neighborhood of Sir John's, Morgan county, to within four miles of
Harper's Ferry -- in all, a distance of forty miles. All the depots on
the road were torn down or burned, and the the hotel, belonging to
the company at Martinsburg, was committed to the flames. The
cross-ties and sills were taken up and fired, and the iron rails laid
on and bent by the heat, so as to render them unfit for use. The
Winchester road was destroyed entirely from Winchester to Halltown,
some twenty-five miles. The lower end of this road was destroyed
within sight and hearing of the enemy's forces on Bolivar Heights,
without the slightest resistance being offered. It will require some
time to repair these roads so as to make them of any service; and if
the Yankees should invade the Valley again during the winter, they
will have to furnish other means of transportation. |
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