| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| December 4, 1863 |
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| A letter from the Atlanta
Register, dated Dalton, November 1st, says: |
| On yesterday the train on the
East Tennessee & Georgia railroad went up to Charleston
{40 miles north of Dalton}. The bridge
there is nearly finished -- the iron will be laid down again tomorrow,
and on Thursday it is expected the train will go through to Loudon. The
occupancy of the country by Gen Vaughn first, and since by our infantry,
has had the effect your correspondent predicted two or three weeks ago,
viz: to prompt the farmers to sow their small grain. You see this all
along the route, and if the country continues to be held by us there may
still be a god crop of wheat. Another good effect is the penning and
fattening of a very considerable number of hogs. This is a very
important consequence of the campaign towards Knoxville, and the supply
of subsistence from our great East Tennessee granary will compensate
fully for the amount of men and money expended in the reconquest of so
much of it as we have retaken and hold. |
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