. Book of the Royal blue . of Independence, if, indeed, second to prophet has he proven, for therehas been no more potent factor in the de-velopment of the United States than thispioneer railroad which was destined to bindtogether the East and the West with bandsof steel, literally. That its corner stonewas laid on Independence Day seems alsoprophetic, as much of the history of the 0. road is the history of our to the Revolution, during the Frenchand Indian wars, (Jeorge Washington, then footsteps of the pioneer, but brave and suc-cessful as our armies have been, no
. Book of the Royal blue . of Independence, if, indeed, second to prophet has he proven, for therehas been no more potent factor in the de-velopment of the United States than thispioneer railroad which was destined to bindtogether the East and the West with bandsof steel, literally. That its corner stonewas laid on Independence Day seems alsoprophetic, as much of the history of the 0. road is the history of our to the Revolution, during the Frenchand Indian wars, (Jeorge Washington, then footsteps of the pioneer, but brave and suc-cessful as our armies have been, none werebraver, more successful or fought a moreworthy cause than Gen. Washingtons littleband. Where the Shenandoah flows swiftlydown to meet the Potomac, Braddock stub-bornly resisted, and in nearly the samespot. Harpers Ferry, the first guns of theRebellion were fired. During that terriblestruggle no point of vantage was more bit-terly fought for than the possession of theline of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It. BflLDIXG A TlXXEL, B. & O. R. NEAR MILTON VALLEY. a lieutenant of Virginia militia, led hiscommand over the trail which is now theline of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad be-tween Cumberland and Pittsburg; laterGen. George Washington repeatedly led hislittle army of ragged Continentals backand forth over the rough and muddy coun-try roads which have since been convertedinto a hard, smooth pathway for the ironhorse, which has dragged many thousandsof American soldiers along the same way,the numberless thousands which follow the was captured and recaptured, now held byone side, now by the other; its depots wereover-run with moving regiments and itstrains filled with soldiers and supplies fortheir maintenance. During the Cuban warit bore its share of the boys in blue tothe field, and when, November 27, 1897,Commodore George Dewey was ordered tothe command of our Pacific squadron, itseemed fitting he should use the Balti-more & Ohio Road, and we little guessedthen
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