Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-15
EHEBALTIMoRR q OHIO ROAD

Its Part In the TWAr.-Recent Move
ment OF Troops Over its Rails
The Ability and Vitality Oharac-
terizing Its Management.
Il From Washington Letter dated the llth,
One of the greatest military movements
Of the whole war has been taking place
during the.Week that has just closed, and
is indeed, scarcely. flushed yet. 1t is the
transportation by railroad, to their respect-
i've States, ,,ef the vast armies recently as
sembled here, numbering in the aggregate
fully 120. 600 men. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company were required to
furnish transportation for that number Of
men; with, their, horses and baggage, from
this city to Baltimore; and for SO, 600 men
from Baltimore to P6rkersbufR on the
Ohio river. OF the remainder, about 40 !.
900 men have been transported on the
road between Baltimore and New York, BIZ
way of Philadelphia. These men com
prise the New York and Pepusylvauia reg.
iments, and those from the New England
States. About S0,000are being transport
ed on the railroad from Baltimore; vis
Harrisburg, and some of these will go to
the West by way of Pittsburgh, i, the m0jor.
ity,l comprising regiments from western
New York and western Pennsylvania, will
quickly reach, their homes.
The part played in this great work by
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, ahowey-
er, deserves espeGial notice. It will be
seen by the map that the 80, 600 soldiers
who go westward over this line, will have
a journey by. railroad of 400 miles, thai
being the distance from Washington "a
Parkersburg,- Z. Qn arriving at the latter
point, steamboats, on the Ohio river will
convey them TO Cincinnati, Louisville, and
Cairo, from which places they will be dis,
tribnted to their homes. i,sl lsssis 49,
The transportation of these troops will
ptobably be the last Of the great aud sig.
nal services which the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad has rendered to the GoTerumoni
during theWar. Had it not been for the
existence of this road, for the energetic
and able manner in which It was managed
and for the extraordinary and Pho nix,
like vitality which 1t manifested In BEING
reb1ilt again and again, the result OF The
war might have been very different; for on
several oeoasionsS the fate of the Union
army near Washington, and the safety o.
the capital itself, depended on the move
ment Of troops over this road. or Ihil
one or two instances may be given ~
On the Goth Of august, 1862, the ofieerl
of the road received an order from thC
War Department to move the division o.
Gen. Cox from the GauIey River, in West.
ern Virgfnis, to Washington. The cir,
cumstauces under which this order gal
executed, exhibitlin q stFOugslight the .ex
celIeut management of the road, under thr
most trying difficulties. -Itwas about tn,
time that Pope's battles in Virginia com
menced, and about 10 days before his re-
treat to Washington. The general bust
ness OF the toad was extremely heavy. al
the cars adapted 10 the transportation o
troops we're then muse betRsenJthis cit,
and Baltimore, engaged in carrying from
4, 900 to- 5. 600 troops per day, and this hat
been going on for two weeks previous &
the Iscepton'9f theiOrder, a >,
However, the movement of the division
of General Cox was effected in aeeordanc
with the plans Of the War Department
TIE number of cars used was 425; me ar
tillery, WsgonsI Rmbulanoes, etc, of th
division (which numbered fully SEQ
tmeu) requiring loo cars, of the goudoI
form. The !roops we're dispatched .ffor
PAFksrsburs, on the Ohio river, IN detach
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