Reached Bellaire at 2:30 A. M. and were ferried across the river.
Took the Baltimore and Ohio road before daylight. In box cars — plenty of straw.
Very rough country. Fairmount, Grafton most important town today, junction of
the two branches. Road ran along the Monongahela for a time, then the Cheat
River. Passed through several tunnels, one nearly a mile long. Some very heavy
grades — 117 ft. per mile for 17 miles.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 112
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