NP, RD 10/19A/1863

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
October 19, 1863
 
Lynchburg, Oct. 18
   Reliable information says that the enemy who advanced this side of Bristol, retreated to East Tennessee yesterday. They destroyed five bridges on the Virginia & Tennessee road between Bristol and Abingdon, threw one engine from the track at Bristol, tore up half a mile of track, burnt the cross-ties and bent the iron, and burnt two engines and five cars belonging to the Virginia & Tennessee road, loaded with salt.

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