| From the Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer |
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| December 12, 1864 |
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| Capture of Trains near Huntsville, Ala. |
| Gen. Beauregard has officially informed
the War Department that Gen. Roddy reports from Decatur the evacuation
by the enemy of Huntville, Alabama, and Athens, Tenn., and the capture
by Lt. Col. Windis of two locomotives, with tenders, twenty cars and a
pontoon bridge, mostly in good order Col. Windis's report to Gen. Roddy,
dated at Decatur, 28th ult. {November} says
that he entered Huntsville {Memphis & Charleston
RR} at day light that day with a Lieutenant and two men, secured
the neighborhood, found no enemy, and returned just as the train,
conveying two hundred negro soldiers, came in from the east. With
one man he attacked the engineer and stopped the train, pretending to
have a regiment near by. The negroes stampeded! The gallant
Lieut. Colonel and his assistant did not pursue. |
| Ib. |
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