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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
al Records): It is not intended to interfere with the peaceful use of the road, etc., etc. General Johnston states (Johnston's Narrative), page 28), in regard to seizing some of the rolling-stock of this road for use of the South: It would have been criminal as well as impolitic on our part to commit such an act of war against citizens of Maryland, when we were receiving aid from the State then and hoping for its accession to the Confederacy. General Lee writes to General J. E. Johnston, June 7, 1861: The evacuation of the latter (Harpers Ferry) would interrupt our communication with Maryland and injure our cause in that State. These extracts prove that the Confederacy hoped to hold the Baltimore & Ohio road at that early period, hence the delay in ordering and preparing for its destruction in time to effect it thoroughly. It was now charged that I had surrendered the road, and with it that part of the State to the United States troops. If my first orders had directed the destr