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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War Movements. (search)
ing of trains for the destruction of the bridge joining Maryland and Virginia, across the Potomac, is not credited, as the bridge could easily be destroyed by fire before any hostile force could approach by ordinary means. The Baltimore Sun, of Saturday, in its notice of the Relay camp, gives some further particulars of the capture of the "steam gun" About 11 o'clock A. M. some stir was manifest in the camp, and the 12 M. Ellicott's Mills train from Baltimore, in charge of Conductor Kenney, on approaching the Relay station, was taken possession of by order of Gen. Butler and impressed into the service of a company of artillery and infantry, numbering several hundred men, with two pieces of cannon. The train, after a short detention sufficient to embark the men, left for the Mills -- Then it was their mission became known to be the capture of the centrifugal steam gun of Mr. Dickinson, then reported to be on its way from this city to Ellicott's Mills, over the turnpike, drawn