| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| September 7, 1861 |
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| Accident to Troops |
| On Saturday night last, two
trains left Bristol for Lynchburg {Virginia
& Tennessee RR}, laden with a regiment of the Polish
brigade, from Louisiana, and a couple of independent Georgia
companies. The trains were not far apart, and while the foremost was
going up a heavy grade near Abington, the coupling between two of the
cars broke, detaching six cars, which at once started backward down
the grade, and came into collision with the train which was following.
Two of the cars were smashed to pieces, killing one soldier outright,
and wounding some fourteen others, of whom two died the following day.
The wounded were taken to Abington, and properly cared for. |
| Knoxville Register, 5th |
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