The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-08-26
WHOLE No. 2,O7O

| was the only engineer. The troops
were carried via the p. W., & 3. Rail
road, to liavre de Grace, and thence
transported by boat to Annapolis. where
they were loaded on my train and hurried
Oh to Washington. This system was re-
sorted to for IA number of weeks until
Baltimore WAS taken out of the hands of
the Rebel authorities who were governing
it by Batter, who established his famous
martial police and dismissed all of those
previously employed. In iifiy after his
arrival the Rebel flags which waved from
every staff were hauled down and the
stars and stripes went up instead. The
Il. " o. Railroad Company was compell-
ed to re-estahlsh its trains on the Wash
ington branch, although the Government
continued to manage it for several months
thereafter, until, eventually it was given
back into the hands of the company un-
der iron clad orders to not again attempt
to use i against the Government.
UNPOPULAR WITH HIS FELLOWS.
When again met my fellow engineers
at the reopening of the road, iJ was hard
Tor me to go among them. | was, i'll
reality, an object of contempt to every
one of them. and the curses showered up
on me every day were hard to endure.
But | soon outlived their prejudice and
we were happy family once again. I
was once attacked by crowd in Balti-
more for expressing Union sentiments,
but lighting my way out | had the entire
batch arrested and locked up in Fort
McHenry for a long time by the Marshars
orders. Never saw one of them again.
Occasionally, during the war, l was
transferred to the main line to run trains
and it was while in that duty that my
train was captured at Duflield's by Con-
Iederate RAIDERS under command of Gen.
Harry Gilmore, whom | knew well. My
train was burnt before my eyes and pas
s6ngers aud crew were all held prisoners
Tor one day. when we were ordered to de-
part on foot after being relieved of all
the vauables found upon us. Our entire
party slept i'll a wood that night and
walked to Hagerstown, distant IS miles,
next day. From there we were able to
take train for Baltimore.
MINOR INCIDENTS.
1t would be impossible to relate in de-
tail Il large number of other interesting
incidents Ill which Mr., King figured from
time to time and we will therefore con-
clude our present article with briefsu
mary of some of them.
In all the years Of his railroading he
never had out one accident to happen to
him. That was on the 3. & q. Railroad
IN 1893, when by misplaced switch his
engine was thrown from the track and
upset. lie was running an express train.
None OF the passengers was hurt. but he
and his fireman suffered considerably.
His own collar bone was broken, his head
had large hole knocked in it, and his
body and legs were SO badly bruised that
he was laid up for repairs - for nine
weeks. When he again reported for duty
the Railroad Company handed him his
full pay for all the time he had been of
and also paid his physician a bill of $105
which he had contracted during the sick
ness. Joshua did not grin at this.
Joshua saw Col. Ellsworth, who was
Shot at Alexandria, but a few hours be-
fore that circumstance occurred, and his
good wife presenting him with a son the
same day, Joshua had him christened
Ellsworth.
1t will be remembered that plot had
been formed to assassinate Abraham Lin
coin when. he passed through Baltimore
on his way to Washington to be inaugu-
rated President, on the 4th of March,
1861. 1t was Joshua's train that the
President was expected to ride ON from
Baltimore, and while the train lay in
wait at the depot for the arrival from the
West of the distinguished passenger, Il
telegram was received stating that Lin
coin was already safely landed in Wash
ingtou. the plans of the woul-dbe- assas-
sin having been frustrated by Mr.. Lin
coin passing through the city at an earlier
hour in a sleeping ear. Mrs. Lincoln anu
her family arrived, however, as was ex-
pected, and went to Washington on
Joshua S train.
On the 18Th of April. 1SGj.-the day
preceding the assassination Of President
Lincoln. -Joshua having been offered "a
position on The West Chester and Inter
section road to run the only locomotive
used on it between Malvern and this place
BY Superintendent Henry Wood. he left
the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road Oh the morning of the fourteenth
and on HE morning OF the fifteenth, when
the country was shocked by the news of
the assassination reported for duty at
Malvern and ran his first train to West
Chester. Ex-SherilT Davis Gill, of WY
li>town township was then his Conduc-
tor.