The Wheeling Intelligencer of the 9th says:
At midnight on Sunday, the bridge over the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry was opened for travel, and immediately the cars of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad began to pass over it. For the forty-eight hours ending at midnight, eight hundred loaded cars had passed over. – Of that number six hundred went East and two hundred came West. There is still a large amount of freight awaiting transportation, and all the cars of the road will be brought into requisition to dispose of it as speedily as possible.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3
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