| From the Richmond Enquirer |
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| December 8, 1864 |
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| Capture of Trains Near Huntsville, Alabama |
| General Beauregard has officially informed
the War Department that "General Roddy reports from Decatur the
evacuation by the enemy of Huntsville, Alabama, and Athens, Tennessee,
and the capture by Lieutenant Colonel Windis of two locomotives, with
tenders, twenty cars and a pontoon bridge, mostly in good order. |
| Colonel Windis's report to General Roddy,
dated at Decatur, 28th ultimo, says that he entered Huntsville {on
the Memphis & Charleston RR} at
daylight the previous day with a Lieutenant and two men, scouted the
neighborhood, food 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
Lieutenant-Colonel and his assistant did not pursue. |
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