I also want to thank Scott Mingus for calling my attention to the error. Those of you interested in Civil War history in the region, including stories related to Gettysburg and Antietam, may want to take a look at the books on Scott Mingus’s author page on Amazon.com.
On March 25, 2015, I posted the narrative of Charlotte Giles and Harriet Eglin escaping from Baltimore on a train. I incorrectly included this narrative among the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad stories. I was on the wrong track. Scott Mingus, a York County, Pennsylvania historian and author alerted me to the error, pointing out that Sydney Gay, a New York City Underground Railroad agent, had recorded their escape. In Gay’s record he noted that they escaped through “Little York,” a reference to York, Pennsylvania, and evidence that they used the North Central Railroad out of Baltimore. I regret the error and I sent a correction to the National Park Service so they can remove this incident from my original report on the PW&B RR.
I also want to thank Scott Mingus for calling my attention to the error. Those of you interested in Civil War history in the region, including stories related to Gettysburg and Antietam, may want to take a look at the books on Scott Mingus’s author page on Amazon.com.
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