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The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] (search)
, &c., of the road on which they were running. A pilot in the employment of the Central Road Mr. Chas Phillips, who it was thougt had sufficient knowledge of the road to conduct the stain safely to its destination, was sent with it, and to him some blame must be attached. On this road, where all extra trains are run by telegraph, there is a standing order for no such train to pass a telegraph station without reporting for instructions. The Superintendent of the Central Railroad, Mr. H. D. Whitcomb, was in the telegraph office with an operator from the time the train left Gordonsville until the collision was reported, and, we understood, the conductor failing to report at any station after leaving Gordonsville, it was thought best by the Superintendent to send a man above the Junction with a signal light to stop the train, which signal, it seems, those on the engine disregarded. The engineer, however, states in extenuation, that both steam chests of his engine leaked very badly,
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] (search)
nister. But still onward we went, taking one gun and two caissons, and making there a short stand. Again the enemy unmasked two brass presses, which of last drove us, by their vigorous fire, back. But I caused the captured gun to be tipped over, so that the enemy in regaining the ground could not drag it away. The Fifth Ohio and Eighty-Fourth Pennsylvania threw themselves once more with fined bayonets forward, the former losing four times in a few minutes their standard-bearer. Captain Whitcomb at last took the colors up again, and, cheering on his men, fell also.--So, too, Col. Murray, whilst gallantly leading on his Eighty-Fourth regiment. In fact that ground was strewn with dead and wounded. General Tyler lost there his aid, Lieutenant Williamson, of the Twenty-ninth Ohio. I hurried back to bring up the 110th and 14th Indiana by a right oblique movement through the woods, and the enemy, receiving all the combined shock, retired and left us in possession of our dearly