Baltimore-bound Troop Train Wrecked by Engineer

[John Hartwell]

[New London Weekly Chronicle, Sept. 19, 1861]​

The "Harris Light Cavalry" was properly part of Judson Kilpatrick's 2nd New York Cavalry.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Was the engineer ever induced to give his story, does anyone know? Something of the flavor of this makes him sound not just anti-Union but as if he had a personal grudge, against someone specific? Well, it's Kilpatrick. You never know.

Must have been a huge concern- who was in charge of what transportation. This reminds me of another story, a nurse on a ship noticing it was allowed to trail behind a convoy, sounded an alarm. Transpired a plot was afoot, for its capture.