GDG- Supoplying the armies

[John Grim]

Peter

How did your day go yesterday??  With the Car show, Chinatown parade and
usual tourists that area between White House and Capitol was really
crowded.  I was actually standing outside the Surratt boarding house when
you called.  A number of us had dinner at Clydes after the parade.  The
historical city sign outside of 604 said that Booth was shot and died in
the tobacco barn during his escape attempt....of course I had to remark
that he actually died on the front porch of the Garrett farm....that's
me...always looking for mistakes.  It was way to crowded to see much of the
parage....people kept pushing forward until the marchers barely were able
to squeeze thru.  It got much colder when the sun went down as you probably
know.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:19 AM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Yes John-
>
> I have submitted a CW map of DC and the forts to the  gdg.  If you see
> where the traacks run they O&A tracks ran in almost a  straight line down
> Wilkes
> St.
>
> I wondered how they got the locos through the tunnel.  It  does seem awful
> low.
>
> A  Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/28/2012 11:04:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed  GDG Member Contributes:
> Peter
>
> When I first moved to Alexandria  around 1976 I lived on Wilkes anduse to
> walk thru that tunnel almost every  day when going to work at Chadwick's on
> the waterfront.  My  understanding is that they used smaller engines to go
> from the wharves thru  the tunnel.  They probably connected to the other
> railroads near where  the Masonic Temple is.   When I owned a house on
> Walnut St (west  end) it was very near the area where many railroad workers
> lived that  loaded and unloaded goods from western virginia and there were
> still two  families on Walnut that were engineers on the 0range &
> Alexandria
> routes and whose fathers had also been engineers on those  routes.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, George Connell
> <georgeconnell at mac.com>wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member  Contributes:
> > Very interesting. Thank you.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> > George
> > 26ª11'56"N   81ª48'19W"
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, CWMHTours at aol.com  wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Andy  brought up the procedures of supplying the  armies.
> > >
> >  > At the risk of boring people with another DC story there is
> something
> > > mildly weird in Alexandria.  Along the Potomac is  a small ridge  maybe
> > 15-20
> > > feet high.  I think  it is millions of years old alluvial silt
>  deposits
> > from
> >  > the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
> >  >
> > > On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it where the  other  streets go
> > over
> > > it.  Always wondered  about it then I found out that before  the CW the
> > > tracks of  the O&A RR ran through the tunnel to docks on the   Potomac.
> >  During the
> > > war vessels would come up and  offload directly into  the freight cars
> and
> > > the stuff  shipped directly out to the Union armies.   Then there were
> >  some
> > > hospital cars that would be pushed through the  tunnels,  placed onto
> > barges
> > > where steam tugs would  move them up to places like Balt or  Philly.
> > >
> > >  How much H Haupt had to do with this I don't know.  They  would  load
> > > freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded  perpendicular to
> the
> > hull of
> > > the barge. From there  they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City
> Point
> > > where  they would be put back on the tracks.
> > >
> > > By @ 1863 the  tracks of the B&O were extended across the  Potomac into
> > >  Alexandria and connected with the O&A.
> > >
> > > Hope you  find this story interesting.
> > >
> > > A  Loyal Neo-Anti  Unionist,
> > > Peter
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