| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| July 21, 1864 |
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| The Enemy at Ashville, Ala. |
| The passenger train on the
Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad which left here at the usual
hour yesterday morning arrived at Blue Mountain last night at 11
o'clock, where it was stopped by our military authorities and ordered
to return this morning at 2 o'clock, it being reported that a force of
Yankee cavalry twelve hundred strong, was at Ashville, St. Clair
county, thirty-five miles above Talladega. It was thought that the
Yankees had divided their force into three columns, with a view, it
was supposed, of striking Talladega, the Coosa River Bridge and
Montevallo. We have a guard at the bridge, but not sufficient to hold
it against such a force as is reported on the way there. Gen. Clanton,
we are glad to learn, is in the enemy's rear and pursuing them. The
train left this morning at the usual hour, but will probably not go
farther than Montevallo or the Coosa bridge, twenty miles beyond
there. We hope, however, to get further and more satisfactory
information by this evening. |
| Later |
| Since penning the above, we
are informed that Gen. Clanton captured a Yankee courier, on Tuesday,
with a dispatch to the officer in command of Yankee cavalry at
Decatur, Ala., ordering him to move immediately in two columns, and
strike the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad at two points,
destroying it and laying waste the country as they go. It was learned
from the captured dispatch that a force of the enemy had been ordered
from Rome for the same purpose. We regard this intelligence as
perfectly reliable. |
| Selma Mississippian |
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