. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . as an invaluablemember of my troop when the word was passeddown the line one night that we needed motivepower and were on our way to seize it from theBaltimore and Ohio shops a was hard for me to raid the property of theCompany which had first given me employ-ment, but my cause came first and it was with No, he replied, that came shortly after-ward and was handled by the cavalry of thegreat Stonewall Jackson. Evidently partisanship between the Northand South was about evenly divided along thePotomac and there was little enmity in post-wa
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . as an invaluablemember of my troop when the word was passeddown the line one night that we needed motivepower and were on our way to seize it from theBaltimore and Ohio shops a was hard for me to raid the property of theCompany which had first given me employ-ment, but my cause came first and it was with No, he replied, that came shortly after-ward and was handled by the cavalry of thegreat Stonewall Jackson. Evidently partisanship between the Northand South was about evenly divided along thePotomac and there was little enmity in post-war days between former employes, for manywho had worn the Gray immediately returnedto the Baltimore and Ohio. This was the casewith Mr. Keller, who came back as fireman in1864. After seven years service as such he wasmade an engineer and then handled our mountaintrains for twenty-eight years. His last activeservice was as yard engineer for three years. From a service which extends from the daysbefore the Civil War to the present time, Mr. and Mrs. .Adam Keller at their home in Keyser, W. Va. a clear conscience that I galloped over theWinchester Pike to Martinsburg and withmy companions laid hold of the two enginesavailable. One, which we called Biilie Blackwells,rumbled over the turnpike to safety in our linesbehind the thirty or fortj^ actual horsepowerwhich we hitched to the front end. But theother stalled on what was called Fishers Hilland the Yankee cavalry, which was pursuing us,recaptured it. I here interrupted to ask if it was on that raidthat the Confederates tore up Baltimore andOhio rails, heated them and twisted themaround trunks of trees so that they could be ofno further use to the Union forces. Keller was able to draw incident after incidentof great interest to this generation of that he told me, however, was moreinteresting than the fact that long before theestablishment of towers and telegraph officeson our Railroad the engineers often us
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