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+//St. Lawrence Republican and Ogdensburgh Weekly Journal//, December 24, 1862
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+From the "Sixtieth."
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+CAMP RATHBONE, NEAR BALTIMORE,\\
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+Maryland, December 13th, 1861
+EDITOR OF THE REPUBLICAN & JOURNAL:
+On the 5th inst., Paymaster Smith came down from Washington and brought us our pay for services up to Nov. 1st. The total amount paid to the regiment was about $15,000. Of this sum the following amounts are known to have been sent home by the officers and men of the several companies as follows:
+Co. A $1,324.00
+Co. B  840.00
+Co. C  700.00
+Co. D  1334.23
+Co. E 1,180.22
+Co. F 295.00
+Co. G 375.25
+Co. H 556.00
+Co. J 593.27
+Co. K 853.95
+Total $795,362
+Most of this was sent by Express, and it is probably that more was sent my mail than I have any account of; also that quite an amount was sent by the Field and Staff Officers. In addition to all thus accounted for the sum of $460 has been paid to the band for the purchase of instruments. About $500 more will be needed to complete their set, and it will be cheerfully given out of the January payment.
+Another death occurred in our regiment this morning, Aaron Gear, a resident of Pitcairn, and a member of Co. D, died of Typhoid Fever. Hugh Adrian of Heuvelton, a member of Co F, is lying very sick with the same disease. He is at the City Hospital, and has every possible care and attention. Several who have been very sick with fever are rapidly recovering. The measles are very prevalent in camp. About forty are now in different stages of sickness. Dr. Gale and his assistant are meeting with good success in their treatment of this so much dreaded disease. In many camps about us it has been attended with great mortality.
+We are now making active preparations for winter quarters, having received orders to erect barracks. Our camp is located on the Southern bank of a fresh water pond, from which the Susquehanna Ice Company gets its sock in trade. The pond is also famed as the place where the notorious Winans experimented with his cigar-shaped steamer.
+Last Thursday night at a little past ten o'clock, we were startled by a very heavy explosion, followed immediately by that peculiarly whizzing sound, which is said to those familiar with such things, to accompany the passage of a bomb. That it was a bomb, the Corporal of the guard, who was going the roads with his relief, was very confident, for the thing struck the ground only three feet from him. Of course a scampering ensued, for no one cares to be near a bursting projectile. But after a moment or so had passed, search was made for the missile, when it was found to be a piece of a locomotive boiler flue, about three feet long and weighing perhaps fifteen pounds. Several of us immediately started for the Railroad, distant about three hundred rods in the rear of our camp, and there saw that a locomotive had exploded, and was in fragments. The force of the explosion had thrown it from the track, and whatever remained that was combustible about it was on fire.
+Col. Hayward sent down several officers and about twenty men to extinguish the flames, and render such other assistance as might be needed. Capt. Ransom was standing on the steps of the locomotive at the time of the explosion, having but just got on for the purpose of riding down the length of his lines to see how well his men were doing their guard duty. He providentially escaped unharmed.
+A soldier connected with one of the Wisconsin regiments was on the locomotive. He must have been thrown an enormous distance in the air, as his body was found deeply imbedded in the clay about two rods from the locomotive. The fate of the engineer was however most surprising. His body was found in a field 650 feet distant from the locomotive. The dome of the engine, weighing about one ton, was found about eighty feet beyond the engineer.
+The train to which this powerful locomotive was attached, was made up of Government freight cars, and had just started for Washington. It was a very heavy train, and was moving very slowly, which fact alone prevented a great destruction of property. As it was, but one car was demolished. Its cargo, however, hay pressed in bales, was uninjured.\\
+Yours, &c., R. EDDY.
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+//St. Lawrence Republican and Ogdensburgh Weekly Journal//, January 21, 1862
+The Resignation of Col. Hayward.
+HEADQUARTERS 60TH REGIMENT, N. Y. S. V.\\
+CAMP RATHBONE, NEAR BALTIMORE, Jan. 1., 1862.
+Col. John C. Robinson, Commanding Railway Brigade, Annapolis Junction.
+SIR: Considerations of a private nature influence me to tender, through you, to his Excellency, E. D. Morgan, Governor of the State of New York, to Major General Geo. R. McClellan, Commanding Army of the Potomac, or the Adjutant General of the United States Army, my resignation of the commission of Colonel of the Sixtieth Regiment New York State Volunteers.
+From the date of the commission until the persent moment, I have the innate consciousness of having obeyed every superior order, and having conformed in spirit and letter to Revised Army Regulations and to the Articles of War.
+The love of country beats as warmly in my heart now as when a young Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, and as when having declined the Colonelcy of another regiment from conscientious motives, I sacrificed private and pecuniary considerations to accept this position.
+Need I, therefore, say that when my services are demanded by my country in any exigency, I shall be ready to make any sacrifice for that sake.
+I have the honor to be, with much respect, your most obedient servant,\\
+W. B. HAYWARD,\\
+Colonel Sixtieth Regiment N. Y. S. V.
+HEADQUARTERS RAILWAY BRIGADE,\\
+CAMP MICHIGAN, ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION,\\
+January 10, 1862.
+COL. W. B. HAYWARD:\\
+DEAR SIR: Your resignation as Colonel of the Sixtieth Regiment New York State Volunteers, having been accepted, it affords me much pleasure to state that I have always found you prompt, ready and willing to obey and execute all orders and instructions that have been communicated to you during your connection with this brigade — Our private intercourse, renewed after a separation of more than twenty years, has been of the most pleasant kind, and in your retirement to civil life you carry with you my esteem and kindest wishes for your success and welfare. Very truly yours,
+JNO. C. ROBINSON\\
+Colonel Commanding Brigade.
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+//The Advance//, January 24, 1862
+THE RAILROAD GUARD.
+[From the Baltimore Sun, January 10.]
+A few nights since, the sentinels of the New York Sixtieth Regiment detected suspicious parties near the railroad track towards Washington, who were supposed to have designed obstructing the road, or interfering with the safe passage of the trains. The interlopers were fired at, but in the darkness made their escape. The efficiency with which these important duties are performed by the regiments between Baltimore and Washington, under the general command of Brig.-General John C. Robinson (late of the United States Army,) has enlisted the attention of travelers between Baltimore and the Capital. The First District of Columbia Regiment is posted between Washington and Beltsville, the First Michigan between Beltsville and Annapolis Junction, the Tenth Maine between Annapolis Junction and the Western Junction at Relay, and the New York Sixtieth from the Relay to the Locust Point and other stations of the road in Baltimore. Colonel William B. Hayward, of the latter regiment, has 960 efficient men under his command. He has lately issued to them a printed circular of instructions, by which they are required to assiduously guard all the bridges, culverts, and switches; to patrol the line by day and night; to prevent obstructions being laid on the track by malicious persons, and to warn off all interlopers at all doubtful in their purposes. These duties seem to be effectively performed, although involving considerable exposure to the men at this season.
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 From Our Regular Correspondent.
-CAMP HILL, HARPER'S FERRY, Va., June 1, 1861.
+CAMP HILL, HARPER'S FERRY, Va., June 1, 1861[sic].
 EDITOR REPUBLICAN AND JOURNAL:

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