| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| June 30, 1863 |
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| From the United States |
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| Damage to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
| All the bridges on the railroad between
the Opequon and Cumberland have been destroyed, track torn up in many
places, and water tanks burned and demolished. At the North Branch
bridge, over the Potomac, they fired 17 shots from a 12-pounbder
before they could break the top cord, the bridge being an iron one,
and a very fine structure. Only one span of this bridge was destroyed.
The bridge over the South Branch was destroyed entirely. |
| The bridges over Back Creek, Sleepy Creek,
Sir John's Run and Green Spring Run were all burned, and water-tanks
at Green Spring Run and Sir John's Run were both burned. |
| The devastation has been extensive and
complete. |
| {This damage was being done by
the Army of Northern Virginia as it moved toward Gettysburg. With
Lee's concern to fill the army's wagons with as much commissary and
quartermaster goods as possible while in the North, because the
Southern railroads could not keep him well-enough supplied in Northern
Virginia, it seems strange that he appears to have made no effort to
haul any of the railroad iron south during this campaign.} |
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