. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ng the Balti-more and Ohio right of way. It is no doubt well known and it hasbeen repeatedly said that without the aidand the united efforts and support of theBaltimore and Ohio and its loyal em-ployes and the telegraph there is no tell- ing when and how the Civil War wouldhave ended. It was April 19, 1861, that the UnitedStates arsenals were captured at HarpersFerry and the railroad and telegraphlines destroyed. The railroad was tornup for miles, telegraph poles cut down andburned, the rails heated on the burningpoles and ties and badly warped, and th
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ng the Balti-more and Ohio right of way. It is no doubt well known and it hasbeen repeatedly said that without the aidand the united efforts and support of theBaltimore and Ohio and its loyal em-ployes and the telegraph there is no tell- ing when and how the Civil War wouldhave ended. It was April 19, 1861, that the UnitedStates arsenals were captured at HarpersFerry and the railroad and telegraphlines destroyed. The railroad was tornup for miles, telegraph poles cut down andburned, the rails heated on the burningpoles and ties and badly warped, and thenbent around trees. John W. Garrett, then president of theBaltimore and Ohio, did not sit down andthrow up his hands and yell was on the job to win the war and tosave his railroad, and quickly started outhis repair and construction forces, headedby his able engineers, Walter C. Quincyand W. E. Porter; his transportationmanager, Alexander Diffey; his tele-graph superintendent, Charles W. West-brook, and chief lineman, Henry J. E Spurrier
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