| From the Richmond Whig |
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| May 31, 1864 |
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| The Etowah Iron Works |
| The Atlanta Appeal announces that all the
government property, machinery, stores, supplies, and hands of this
important establishment were 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 moveable was loaded up.
The machinery, etc., comes through by rail {the
Western & Atlantic RR}, and the negroes —
some two hundred and fifty in number — with the stores, etc., by
wagon trains, under the guidance of Gen. S.
These facts the Appeal gathers from Mrs. Smith, who came
through on horseback. |
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