NP, RD 10/19/1863

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
October 19, 1863
 
Lynchburg, Oct. 18
   The enemy fell back beyond Bristol Fridaynight.
   On the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad they burned five bridges. They threw the yard engine and tender over into the turn-table at one of the stations, and tore up a half-mile of the track this side of Bristol, and destroyed a few old cars of the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad. At Bristol they broke up two locomotives, destroyed five car-loads of salt and a number of old cars.
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   The burned bridges on the Va. & Tenn. Railroad are all within five miles of Bristol, and can soon be rebuilt.

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