I have heard that one of the locomotives 'collected' for the Confederate rail roads at the Martinsburg, Virginia shops by former B&O Railroader Thomas Sharpe during the famous Stonewall Jackson led caper wound up as one of the two boilers aboard CSS NEUSE.

Following the war someone salvaged the ship's boilers and they were incorporated into the workings of a nearby mill. Later, following a flood, the mill was abandon and the mill machinery given up as a loss.

Would anyone know if the boilers (or remains of them) were ever re-located?

As an aside, the B&O RR Co. got all but two of the captured 14 locomotives back after the war excepting the one boiler out of the NEUSE and another which had left the rails and disintergrated during what many old-time rail roaders would call a corn-field meet - a head-on collision.

Regards,
Walt