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Show WAS LAST OF HEROES Jeremiah Donovan, Who Helped Take Powder Train to Antietam, Survived Sur-vived All His Comrades. MITH the death of Jeremiah C. Donovan, marble and granite cutter, the list of those who helped save the North from invasion in ' 18G2 by taking a powder 'J J train through to Antietam ( Jj lost its last name. SajTVA General McClellan was pirF 1 fiK'" ing desperately TM-S' against Lee's combined Pr forces on the field of An- '.- tietam. when he discovered discov-ered that powder was scarce, so that he could not use his heavy artillery againsl the Confederate forces. McClellan Mc-Clellan telegraphed to Washington that he must have powder at once. A trainload of explosives was hastened to Bridgeport, I'a., and the Cumberland Cumber-land Valley railroad was requested to carry it over its line to Antietam. Volunteers Vol-unteers were sought to run the engine. "I'll take it to Antietam or to hell I" said Joe Miller, engineer, as he stepped lo the throttle. With the tracks clear for a stretch of 78 miles between the Susquehanna and the Potomac, Joe Miller and his crew made record time with only two stops. When the train reached Cham-bersburg Cham-bersburg the axle boxes were ablaze, and Jeremiah Donovan,, Dono-van,, then seventeen years old. climbed aboard and volunteered volun-teered his services, lie vainly tried to keep the axle boxes cool during the spurt, to Ilagerslown, eight miles friini Antietam. It resembled a train of fire and smoke as It lulled Into the Maryland city. The powder saved the day for Me Chdlun and placed the crew of the powder train on the unrecorded roll of the lie-roes of Antietam. Donovan was the last survivor. He was a .native of (Jhiimbersburg. |