NP, SSGA 11/4/1862

From the Staunton Spectator and General Advertiser (Staunton, Va.)
 
November 4, 1862
 
The Destruction of Roads
   There have been indications that our army below Winchester has changed, or is about changing, its locality. During their sojourn in the lower Valley, our forces effectually destroyed the Baltimore & Ohio and the Winchester & Potomac Railroads. The Baltimore road was torn up from the neighborhood of Sir John's, Morgan county, to within four miles of Harper's Ferry -- in all, a distance of forty miles. All the depots on the road were torn down or burned, and the ti?? hotel, belonging to the company at Martinsburg, was committed to the flames. The cross-ties and sills were taken up and fired, and the iron rails laid on and bent by the heat, so as to render them unfit for use. The Winchester road was destroyed entirely from Winchester to Halltown, some twenty-five miles. The lower end of this road was destroyed within sight and hearing of the enemy's forces on Bolivar Heights, without the slightest resistance being offered. It will require some time to repair these roads so as to make them of any service; and if the Yankees should invade the Valley again during the winter, they will have to furnish other means of transportation.

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