NP, LV 12/25/1864

From the Lynchburg Virginian
 
December 25, 1864
 
Report of the Female Treasury Clerks from Columbia
   It has been stated that the ladies belonging to the Note Signing Bureau lost their furniture in their retirement from Columbia. We learn from such of them as have reached their homes in Richmond they retreated in good order and fine spirits, bringing off in safety all their baggage, supplies and trains. The only loss they sustained was of their hoop skirts, some of which had to be thrown overboard owing to the crowded condition of the cars. They left Columbia yesterday week in two special trains {on the Charlotte & South Carolina RR}, for Charlotte, and would have had a good time but for a detention of ten or fifteen hours, caused by the running off the track of a train which set out ahead of them. On reaching Charlotte they were hospitably met by the citizens, who took them to their homes and showed them every attention. It had been intended that they should remain in Charlotte and resume their work, but a change of plan was made necessary by the change in the military situation, and they resumed their journey northward by easy stages {first on the North Carolina RR, later on the Piedmont RR}-- those who lived here coming direct to this city. At Greensboro', on their route, though they arrived there in the middle of the night, they were met by the citizens, who repeated the hospitalities that had been extended to them at Charlotte.
C. Dispatch  {Charlotte Dispatch}

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