McNeill's Rangers burn the B&O machine shops at Piedmont
May 5, 1864, Piedmont, West Virginia.
- Date
- May 5, 1864
- Where
- Piedmont, West Virginia
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 103 of 174
B&O president John W. Garrett reported the Piedmont machine and carpenter shops burned and several trains destroyed. McNeill reported burning seven large buildings of machinery, nine engines, about 75 freight cars and two trains of commissary stores, and sending six engines under steam toward New Creek. Federal commanders kept an estimated 25,000 troops guarding the B&O against his raids.
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