| From the Atlanta Intelligencer |
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| September 12, 1863 |
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| Rolling Stock Adrift |
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We had the pleasure of meeting, yesterday, 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.
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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 rolling stock was adrift indeed.
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We learn that Colonel Cole has made
his headquarters at Decatur, where he has moved his machine shop.
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