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Captured Union
Locomotives
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| Name |
Number |
Type |
Date |
Builder |
Weight |
Cylinders |
Driver Diam |
| Captured from Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad by Jackson in June 1861 and hauled to Confederate
railroads by Capt. Thomas Sharp |
| |
33 |
0x8x0 |
rebuilt 1853 |
B&O |
|
|
|
| |
34 |
0x8x0 |
rebuilt 1853 |
B&O |
29 |
19"x22" |
43" |
| |
50 |
0x6x0 |
12/1847 |
Baldwin |
17 |
13.5"x18" |
43" |
| |
76 |
0x8x0 |
1851 |
B&O |
|
|
|
| |
83 |
0x8x0 |
10/1851 |
B&O |
|
20"x22" |
|
| |
126 |
4x4x0 |
1853 |
Norris |
|
|
|
| |
188 |
4x4x0 |
11/1858 |
B&O |
27 |
16"x22" |
58" |
| |
199 |
4x6x0 |
11/1853 |
Denmead |
30 |
19"x20" |
50" |
| |
204 |
4x6x0 |
3/1854 |
Denmead |
30 |
19"x20" |
50" |
| |
208 |
4x4x0 |
11/1854 |
Murray & Hazlehurst |
|
|
|
| |
225 |
4x6x0 |
8/1857 |
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 |
28 |
16"x22" |
60" |
|
| Captured at Harpers Ferry |
50 |
| Captured at Duffields |
33, 34, 76, 83, 225 |
| Captured at Martisburg |
126, 188, 199, 204, 208, 226, 231, 235 |
|
| Confederate Names |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
(used in CS gunboat Flora) |
| 50 |
|
| 76 |
|
| 83 |
General Price |
| 126 |
Stonewall Jackson |
| 188 |
Lady Davis, Calvin Graves |
| 199 |
|
| 204 |
|
| 208 |
General Hugar |
| 225 |
Hercules |
| 226 |
Robert E. Lee |
| 231 |
Holden Rhodes |
| 235 |
Powhatan |
| ? |
A. C. Myers |
|
| These are the most complete reports in the press
that I have found of the Confederate removal of the B&O locomotives.
At least 80 cars were taken to Richmond.
|
| A QM order for transportation lists No. 222,
along with 83 and 231.
|
| |
| Captured from McClellan on the Peninsula in
June 1862 |
| Exeter |
|
(Purchased from Boston & Maine RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1850 |
Hinkley & Drury |
21 |
15"x20" |
54" |
| Spark |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1862 |
Norris |
|
15"x24" |
60" |
| Speedwell |
|
(Purchased from Old Colony &
Fallon RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1859 |
Lawrence |
|
15"x22" |
60" |
| Ontario |
|
(Purchased from Fetchburg RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1848 |
Hinkley & Drury |
|
16"x20" |
46" |
| Wyandank |
|
(Purchased from Long Island RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1853 |
Baldwin |
|
16"x20" |
61" |
| Lincoln |
|
(Purchased from Fetchburg RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1848 |
Hinkley & Drury |
|
16"x20" |
46" |
|
| 80 cars were also lost, with some or all added
to the Confederate inventory |
| |
| Captured from Pope at Second Manassas in
August 1862 |
| Hero |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1862 |
Norris |
27 |
16"x24" |
54" |
| Captain Ferguson |
|
(Purchased from Farnum & Durant RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1856 |
Lawrence |
24 |
15.5"x24" |
54" |
| Colonel McCallum / Pocahontas |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
Probably 1862 |
New Jersey |
|
|
|
| Job Terry |
|
(Purchased from Old Colony & Fallon
RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1846 |
Hinkley & Drury |
18 |
15"x20" |
60" |
| |
| 136 |
|
(Purchased from Baltimore & Ohio RR) |
|
0x8x0 |
1853 |
Ross Winan |
38 |
19"x24" |
43" |
|
| 295 cars were ordered destroyed. Many were saved
by the Confederates
|
| |
| Captured on the Orange & Alexandria RR
shortly before Second Manassas in August 1862 |
| Red Bird |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1862 |
New Jersey |
26 |
16"x24" |
54" |
| President |
|
(Purchased from Builder) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
1862 |
Rogers |
23 |
16"x22" |
60" |
| Panther |
|
(Purchased from Boston & Worcester
RR) |
|
|
0x8x0 |
1843 |
Hinkley & Drury |
|
13.5"x20" |
36" |
|
| 60 cars were ordered burned at or en route to
Aquia Creek |
| |
| Captured near Fredericksburg in the late
summer 1862 |
| Washington |
|
(Purchased from Reading RR) |
|
|
4x4x0 |
|
Baldwin |
|
15.5"x20" |
42" |
|
| 57 cars were also lost at this time |
| |
| Union army reports confirm the
destruction of 5 locomotives and 147 cars at Bristoe Station, on the Union
side of the Orange & Alexandria RR. |
| 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. The locomotive had previously been captured by
the North, in 1862, and promptly recaptured by the South. |
| In December, 1864, the Piedmont RR
reports owning locomotive Hercules. |
A January 1865 newspaper report
says that Forrest captured two locomotives and 60 cars on the Nashville
& Chattanooga RR. A December 12th report says that four locomotives
had been captured and were running on the Nashville & Decatur Road. A
newspaper report says that the Forrest captures (the 2 and 60) had been
transferred to the Nashville & Decatur Road. All of these locomotives
(between 2 and 6) were used to support Hood during the Nashville campaign.
They were not able to be transferred south after the Nashville battle
because of a destroyed bridge at Columbia, Tenn.
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 2, Page 636 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 2, Page 653 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 2, Page 656 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 1, Page 657 |
| NP,
CE 12-12-64 |
| NP,
AC 1-10A-65 |
| OR
Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 1, Page 652 |
|
| Though not quite Union locomotives,
the seizure of 5 Louisville & Nashville RR locomotives on July 4, 1861
added their capacity to the Confederate war effort. On September 18, 1861,
another 11 locomotives were captured by Confederate forces, but there is
no indication in the L&N RR records that they were retained by the
Confederacy.
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