Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John McFarland or search for John McFarland in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The Chickahominy Bridge. --On Monday last, at the arrival of the train from Richmond at a point on the York River Railroad about nine miles from town, where the retreating enemy bad set fire to and completely burned up a train of cars, Alexander Dudicy, Esq., President of the road, accompanied by the Superintendent, Mr. John McFarland, and Captain P. G. Colligan, of the Va. Ordnance, took a hand car and started in the direction of the White House. On arriving within a quarter of a mile of the trestle bridge which spans the Chickahominy, they observed a locomotive on the track at the far end of the bridge. The engine was enveloped in stock, and it being impossible to determine what was the cause, the parties on the car being armed entered the woods and came up close to the engine. To their amazement they found that the bridge was an fire, and also that two platform cars attached to the engine were in full blaze. Getting upon the bridge they found that there was imminent danger