| From the Mobile Advertiser &
Register |
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| May 2, 1864 |
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| The Etowah Iron Works |
| We are pleased to be able to
announce that all the Government property, machinery, stores, supplies
and hands of this important establishment have been brought off
safely. Notice of immediate danger, as a consequence of our army
falling south of the Etowah, was only received at midnight Thursday
night, but through the exertions of the President of the company,
General G. W. Smith, who personally superintended the labor,
everything movable was loaded up. The machinery, etc., comes through
by rail {on the Western & Atlantic RR}, and the negroes -- some 250 in number -- with the stores,
etc., by wagon trains, under the guidance of Gen. S. These facts we
gather from his lady, who came through on horseback, reaching the city
at dusk last evening. |
| Memphis Appeal, 23d |
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