Captured Union Locomotives

Name Number Type Date Builder Weight Cylinders Driver Diam
Captured from Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by Jackson in May and  October 1861
 

34

0x8x0 11/1850 B&O 29 19"x22" 43"
  50 0x6x0 12/1847 Baldwin 17 13.5"x18" 43"
  165 4x6x0 7/1853 Denmead 30 19"x20" 50"
  166 4x6x0 7/1853 Denmead 30 19"x20" 50"
  167 4x6x0 7/1853 Denmead 30 19"x20" 50"
  188 4x4x0 11/1858 B&O 27 16"x22" 58"
  199 4x6x0 11/1853 Denmead 30 19"x20" 50"
  202 4x6x0 3/1854 Denmead 30 19"x20" 50"
  204 4x6x0 3/1854 Denmead 30 19"x20" 50"
  225 4x6x0 1857 Denmead 30 18"x24" 50"
  226 4x6x0 1857 Denmead 30 18"x24" 50"
  231 4x4x0 8/1857 Mason  27  16"x22" 60"
  235 4x4x0 8/1857 Mason  27  16"x22" 60"
There are numerous Confederate records listing a B&O No 76, not found in the above list, which is from B&O documents.
 
Captured from McClellan on the Peninsula in June 1862
Exeter   4x4x0 1850 Hinkley & Drury 21 15"x20" 54"
Spark   4x4x0  1862 Norris   15"x24" 60"
Speedwell   4x4x0 1859 Lawrence   15"x22" 60"
Ontario   4x4x0 1848 Hinkley & Drury   16"x20" 46"
Wyandank   4x4x0 1853  Baldwin   16"x20" 61"
Lincoln   4x4x0 1848 Hinkley & Drury   16"x20" 54"
 
Captured from Pope at Second Manassas in August 1862
Hero   4x4x0 1862 Norris 27 16"x24" 54"
President   4x4x0 1862 Rogers 23 16"x22" 60"
Capt. Ferguson   4x4x0 1856 Lawrence Machine Shop 24 15.5"x24" 54"
Red Bird   4x4x0 1862 New Jersey 26 16"x24" 54"
Pocahontas   4x4x0 5/1860 Mason   16"x22" 60"
Job Terry   4x4x0 1846 Hinkley & Drury 18 15"x20" 60"
  B&O 136

 USMRR 60

0x8x0 1853 Ross Winans 38 19"x24" 43"
Panther   0x8x0 1843 Hinkley & Drury   13.5"x20" 36"
 
Captured near Fredericksburg in the late summer 1862
Washington   4x4x0   Baldwin   15.5"x20" 42"
 
A September 18, 1863 article says that 3 locomotives had been captured near Stevenson, Ala. and were very valuable to the Confederate Army.
A May 9, 1863 report of the Stoneman raid says that the Virginia Central RR locomotive Augusta was captured by the raiders. It says the locomotive had previously been captured by the North and, in 1862, recaptured by the South.
A January 1865 newspaper report says that Forrest captured t locomotives and 60 cars on the Nashville & Chattanooga RR and they had been transferred to the Nashville & Decatur Road.

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