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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
. Some of the men who belonged to the trains have arrived here, from whom I learn that the persons who did the damage are yet encamped along the road, about five hundred being at High Hill, and other bodies at or near Martinsburg, Mexico, Centralia, Sturgeon, and Allan. At Centralia they went within half a mile of the Berge Sharp-Shooters and destroyed a bridge and water station. Two freight trains were captured within four miles of the camp of a detachment of the same force. At Renwick the work was directed by practical railroad men, and the right course was always taken to make the destruction complete. Where the track was taken up, the rails were removed, the ties gathered in piles and set on fire, and the rails thrown scores the pile, so that when the centre of the rails became heated the weight of the cold ends bent them so as to render them useless. In destroying the bridges the fires were kindled around the corners, where they would soon throw the bridges down