Show Stonewall Jackson Harpers Ferry I From General John D Imbodens reminiscent anti anecdotal paper on I Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah I in the June Century we quote the following i follow-ing Bv our occupation of Harpers Ferry we had not interfered with the running I run-ning of trains except on the occasion of I the arrest of General ITarnev The rnnl traffic from Cumbeiland was immense as t the Washington government was accu1 1 mulating supplier of coal on the seaboard j I These coal trains passed Harpers Ferry I at all hours of the day and night and I thus furnished Jackson a pretext for 1 I arranging a brilliant scoop When he sent me to Point of Rocks he ordered j Colonel Harper with the Fifth Virginia J infantry to Martinsburg He then complained com-plained to President Garrett of the Baltimore Bal-timore Ohio that the night trains east I wardbound disturbed the repose of his I camp and requested a change of schedule that would pass all eastbound trains by Harpers Ferry between 11 and 1 oclock I in the daytime Mr Garrett complied I and thereafter for several days we heard I the constant roar of passing trains for an hour before and after noon But since I the empties were sent up the road at I night Jackson again complained that the nuisance was as great as ever and as the I road had two tracks he must insist that t the westbound trains should pass Harpers I Har-pers Ferry during the same two hours as > the eastbound Gr Garrett promptly complied and we had then for two hours i every day the liveliest l railroad in America i Amer-ica As soon as the schedule was working i at its best Jackson sent me an order one i nicht to take a force of men across to the Maryland side of the river next day at 11 oclock and let all westbound trains pass till 12 oclock but permit none to go east and at 12 oclock to obstruct the road so that it would take several hours to repair it He ordered the reverse to be done at I Martinsburg Thus he caught all the trains that were going east or west between I be-tween those points and ran them up to I Winchester thirtytwo miles on the branch 1 i road where they were safe and whence j i they were removed by horsepower to I Strasburg and Staunton I do not remem I her the number of trains captured but the loss crippled the Baltimore Ohio road seriously for some time and the j I gain to our scantily stocked Virginia roads i of the same gauge was invaluable |