| From the Richmond Examiner |
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| June 25, 1861 |
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| We learn from Capt. M. E.
Price, the master of transportation, and employed in removing the
machinery from Harper's Ferry, who arrived a Richmond last evening, that
within an area of ten miles of Williamsport there are twenty thousand
troops of the enemy. Some estimate the number at thirty or over thirty
thousand. ***** |
| {I have not
identified a Captain M. E. Price in Confederate service in 1861-1863. I
have also not identified him as a Master of Transportation for any
command or railroad during the war. Price would have left Harper's Ferry
on the morning of the 25th, just as Sharp arrived in the area and
reported to General Johnston. Johnston appears to have shoveled Sharp
and his project off to Jackson in the Martinsburg area, where the
burning of rolling stock had commenced the day before. Jackson agreed to
stop the destruction and let Sharp start removing what he could.} |
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