. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . who has had quite a varied experience in theeight years he has been in the service, havingworked at Pier 22, North River, Arlington, , 18 State Street, and Pier 7, has been pro-moted to fill Mr. Nortons old position. All the men involved have the good wishesand congratulations of their many friends ontheir promotions. A Trip from St. Louis to Washington By W. P. Hac^dorn, former Ticket AgentTower Hill, S. I. About the 25th day of June, 1864, ColonelAlexander, U. S. A., gave me orders to takea company of men, numbering one hundred. I 80 THE BALTIMOR
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . who has had quite a varied experience in theeight years he has been in the service, havingworked at Pier 22, North River, Arlington, , 18 State Street, and Pier 7, has been pro-moted to fill Mr. Nortons old position. All the men involved have the good wishesand congratulations of their many friends ontheir promotions. A Trip from St. Louis to Washington By W. P. Hac^dorn, former Ticket AgentTower Hill, S. I. About the 25th day of June, 1864, ColonelAlexander, U. S. A., gave me orders to takea company of men, numbering one hundred. I 80 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE from St. Louis to Washington, D. C. We leftfor Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th, where we re-mained all night. We were then transferred tothe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and arrivedat Cumberland, Md., where we were ordered offthe train by General Kelly, who commandedthat district, because the roads were cut off bya rebel raid. I was ordered with my company to Sugar LoafMountain, and found two companies from Ohio. W. p. HAGADORN there. I assumed command of the mountain,June 30, 1864. Provost Marshal Captain Pier-point had me do provost (police) duty duringthe raid. On the morning of July 4, someoneset fire to the woods at the base of the hill, andas the road was winding from bottom to top,there seemed to be no way for us to escape. Butwe ordered ditches to be dug, buried all ma-terial not in use, then set fire to the top of thehill so that when the fire reached us there wasnothing to bum. We thereby saved every man. The Baltimore and Ohio had the bridgeguarded against the rebels with a Merrimaccar and a box car covered with sheet iron, andwith port holes for the infantry to fire Confederates, who were about four milesfrom us, saw the fire, thought we were burningthe commissary stores and retreated. I went down to the Queen City Hotel at Cum-berland, Md., for dinner. While sitting in thehotel a prominent citizen villified PresidentLincoln and
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