Crossing by Gilbert Morris

Author:Gilbert Morris [Morris, Gilbert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60742-240-2
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-21T20:00:00+00:00

Colonel Thomas Jackson, commanding officer of the Confederate troops stationed at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lodged a formal complaint with the president of the B & O Railroad, John W. Garrett of Baltimore. The trains disturbed his men at night, and Colonel Jackson demanded that they come through Harpers Ferry at about noon. Mr. John W. Garrett was hardly in a position to to argue with the Confederate officer who held the major railroad bridge over the Potomac. The loaded trains began running westeast from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

But then there were the empties returning east-west at night, and again Colonel Jackson complained and demanded that the dual tracks be scheduled so that the trains ran only around the noon hour. Again he was accommodated, and for two hours a day Harpers Ferry was the busiest railroad hub in America.

At noon on May 23, less than a month after he and his brigade had arrived in Harpers Ferry, Jackson ordered his troops to seal off each end of the thirty-two-mile-long sector that he held. The trains were trapped. By the time the final tally was done, Colonel Jackson had kidnapped fifty-six locomotives and more than three hundred cars.

Another hostage was kidnapped during this raid—a nondescript, rather small reddish mare with soft brown eyes and a coltish gait. Colonel Jackson determined to give her as a gift to Anna, but he grew so fond of her that he kept her for his own mount, conscientously paying the quartermaster for her value. Little Sorrel she was called, and somehow Colonel Jackson sensed she would be with him to the very end of the road.

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