Please help me identify these

[DaveBrt]

Ernst Shriver's article about Jackson hauling away Baltimore & Ohio RR locomotives in 1861 includes the following:

"The reason so long a period was covered in the collection of the seized stock was that the Baltimore & Ohio road was not continuously in the possession of the Confederates. Sometimes, by the fortunes of war, they were driven south of the Potomac, and when, perhaps, after months of skirmishing, they regained the lost ground, the interrupted work of conveying the rolling stock was patiently and systematically resumed. Two or three of the locomotives which were started out of Martinsburgh on the pike never got to Winchester, the Union forces having suddenly appeared upon the scene and driven off the party engaged in hauling them. The attempt to convey them to Strasburg was never renewed and they stood by the pike between Martinsburgh and Winchester until recovered by the Baltimore & Ohio people at the close of the war, somewhat the worse for their exposure to the elements, but still capable, after repairs, of doing good service."

Have any of you seen reference to these abandoned locomotives in any of your primary sources, especially diaries? There is no evidence of them that I can find in the B&O's records or the Confederate government archives.

BTW, the entire Shriver article (with my comments) is at:

www.csa-railroads.com/Essays/Orignial%20Docs/MISC/MISC,_RRB_xx-xx-98.htm

 

[DaveBrt]

Ernst Shriver's article about Jackson hauling away Baltimore & Ohio RR locomotives in 1861 includes the following:

"The reason so long a period was covered in the collection of the seized stock was that the Baltimore & Ohio road was not continuously in the possession of the Confederates. Sometimes, by the fortunes of war, they were driven south of the Potomac, and when, perhaps, after months of skirmishing, they regained the lost ground, the interrupted work of conveying the rolling stock was patiently and systematically resumed. Two or three of the locomotives which were started out of Martinsburgh on the pike never got to Winchester, the Union forces having suddenly appeared upon the scene and driven off the party engaged in hauling them. The attempt to convey them to Strasburg was never renewed and they stood by the pike between Martinsburgh and Winchester until recovered by the Baltimore & Ohio people at the close of the war, somewhat the worse for their exposure to the elements, but still capable, after repairs, of doing good service."

Have any of you seen reference to these abandoned locomotives in any of your primary sources, especially diaries? There is no evidence of them that I can find in the B&O's records or the Confederate government archives.

BTW, the entire Shriver article (with my comments) is at:

www.csa-railroads.com/Essays/Orignial%20Docs/MISC/MISC,_RRB_xx-xx-98.htm

I originally posted this request 7 years ago. Since I have not yet identified these locomotives and since we have had a very large increase in new members, I thought it right to ask the question again -- have any of you seen anything supporting or identifying these locomotives in any period document, especially in diaries or official reports?