From the Richmond Dispatch |
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October 19, 1863 |
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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. |
***** |
The burned bridges on the Va. & Tenn.
Railroad are all within five miles of Bristol, and can soon be
rebuilt. |
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