| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| November 11, 1861 |
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| Telegraphic |
| Outrage of the Unionists in
Tennessee
-- probable destruction of bridges in Upper Georgia. |
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| Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 9 |
| Telegraphic communication from this point
to Chattanooga, Tenn., has been cut off all day. It is reported that several of the bridges
on the State Railroad {the
Western & Atlantic RR} have been burnt. |
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Nine o'clock, P. M. Telegraphic communication between Atlanta
and Chattanooga
was restored to-night at 7 o'clock. [This dispatch does not refer to
the causes which interrupted communication during the day.]
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| Ten o'clock P. M. The railroad
bridge at Charlestown
has been burnt. [Charlestown is on the Chattanooga and Knoxville railroad
{East Tennessee & Georgia RR},
and about 22 miles from the Chattanooga railroad;
and telegraphic communication beyond Charleston, and towards
Knoxville, being suspended, it is impossible to learn the extent of
damage, if any, between Charleston and Bristol. The distance between
those two latter points is nearly 200 miles, and there are many
bridges on the route.] |
| Lynchburg, Nov. 9. About two hundred feet
of the bridge over the Holston river, ten miles beyond Bristol, (on
the East Tennessee {& Virginia} Railroad,)
was burnt at 4 o'clock this morning by the Unionists. About half a
mile of the railroad track was also torn
up, it is reported that several other bridges were burnt on the railroad
south of Knoxville. |
| [From this dispatch we infer that there
was no report of any injury to bridges between the Holston river and Knoxville. The destruction of the bridge beyond
Knoxville
and at Charleston
is referred to in the dispatch from Atlanta, which news was received via
Macon, Augusta
and Wilmington. |
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