| From the Wilmington Journal |
| September 26, 1863 |
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| Rolling Stock Adrift |
| We had the pleasure of meeting
yesterday, (says the Atlanta Intelligencer of Saturday last,) our
valued friend, Col. E. W. Cole, the able and energetic Superintendent
of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, from whom we are
gratified to learn that all the rolling stock and machinery of the
road was safely removed from Chattanooga before the evacuation of our
forces on Monday night last. |
| It was a strange sight we
witnessed yesterday, from our office window, to see nine locomotives
and nine cars alternately hitched together, belonging to this road,
passing along the track. As novel a sight also was that of seeing cars
from Louisville & Nashville, Memphis & Charleston, East
Tennessee & Georgia, Macon & Western, Manchester &
McMinnville, Atlanta & West Point, Chattanooga & Nashville,
and others not recollected. Truly it would seem that rolling stock was
adrift indeed. |
| We learn that Colonel Cole has
made his headquarters at Decatur, where he has moved his machine shop. |
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