The blizzard took a far heavier toll west and east on the U.P. mainline, crippled by downed telegraph wires and the blinding snow. One cattle train rear-ended another in the middle of the night ...

Union Gen. Alfred Duffie was ordered to burn the wool mill and depot at Bonsack, cut telegraph wires and burn the rail depots in Big Lick (now Roanoke) and Salem. McCausland pursued Hunter by ...

“While in Orange, the Union troopers tore up the rail lines and cut the telegraph wires,” continues Blair. “The courthouse itself became a holding pen for approximately 50 gray-clad horsemen ...

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