On September 16 , Laws took Sheridan 's letter ( hidden Hiding_objects in his mouth ) to Wright , who consulted Communication her mother and then replied Response ( in a note which Laws also hid Hiding_objects in his mouth ) that a Confederate officer recovering from his wounds had recently bragged Statement about Confederate artillery and infantry battalions under General Joseph B. Kershaw and Lt. Col. Wilfred E. Cutshaw having left Winchester to raid Attack the B & O Railroad at Martinsburg , in the new state of West Virginia .

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 sometimes referred Name_conferral to as the Great Upheaval , began Process_start on July 14 in Martinsburg , West Virginia , United States after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ) cut wages for the third time in a year .

In Martinsburg , Pittsburgh , Philadelphia and other cities , workers burned Bodily_harm down and destroyed Destroying both physical facilities and the rolling stock of the railroads—engines and railroad cars .