Early cuts the Northern Central at Hanover Junction and York
June 27, 1863, Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania.
- Date
- June 27, 1863
- Where
- Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania
- What happened
- Cut
- Event
- 72 of 174
Early's troops reached the Northern Central by noon and cut the telegraph between York and Hanover Junction. At York they burned rolling stock and machine shops, and their cavalry destroyed many bridges in York County to stop traffic between Baltimore and Harrisburg. Haupt and the U.S. Military Railroad rebuilt the bridges and traffic soon resumed.
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