| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| September 19, 1863 |
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| From Knoxville |
| A gentleman who left Knoxville last Friday
night, states that the East Tennessee renegade, Col. B?? and 300 to
500 mounted men were the first force of the enemy to reach Knoxville.
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| We lost two or three locomotives, and
about twenty cars, on the {East} Tennessee
& Virginia railroad. One of the trains, we understand, was sent
down to Morristown, which had been a depot of supplies for Cumberland
Gap, to take off stores, and the engineer, traitorously, ran the train
through to Knoxville. The regular train went to some other point --
Jonesboro', we believe -- and the enemy, who had secreted themselves
to await its arrival, captured that. We are not advised as to the
place of capture of the rest. |
| Huntsville Confederate |
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