From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/23/1863, p. 1
In Use. - One of the splendid Yankee railroad
engines captured by our troops near Manassas, some months since, and assigned to
the Danville Railroad, having been thoroughly repaired at the workshops of the
company in this city, was yesterday placed on the road for the first time. It
operated finely. To adapt it to use on the road the gauge of the engine had to
be altered, but being of superior make, it was worth all the alteration
required. Formerly bearing the name of some Yankee General, the Abolitionists
would now hardly know the specimen of their handicraft under the modest cognomen
of Pocahontas, which she bears.
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