| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
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| May 5, 1861 |
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| Macon Volunteers at Fort Norfolk |
| A correspondent of the Macon
Telegraph, from Norfolk, says: |
| "I forgot to tell you in
my last of the diabolical attempt that was made on the lives of the
Georgia troops by some traveling abolition vagabond, in North
Carolina. Two of the supports were taken out of a bridge, with the
expectation that it would be impossible for so heavy a train to pass
over without crushing the frail support, and thereby destroying and
maiming the entire corps. It certainly must have been a special
interposition of Providence, for we passed over with only a T rail to
support us. We have since learned that the fellow has been arrested,
and put in jail, but we do not know what disposition has been made of
him." |
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