| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| November 13, 1861 |
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| Report from East Tennessee |
| The rumors in regard to the burning of
bridges on the waters of the Holston, in East Tennessee, have subsided
into the authenticated fact that the only ones successfully fired this
side of Knoxville, are the Union Station bridge, ten miles from
Bristol {on the East Tennessee & Virginia
RR}, and another at Lick Creek, further on. Some two hundred feet of the
bridge first named were destroyed, and it will require but a short
time to restore it sufficiently for the running of the trains. |
| There are reports of the burning of two
bridges on the Georgia
and Tennessee
{East Tennessee & Georgia} railroad, and some facts have been
communicated to us relative to an attempt to burn the long bridge at
Strawberry Plain, near Knoxville {on the East
Tennessee & Virginia RR}. The man who was stationed there to guard it saw fifteen men
approaching, and used his pistol and double barrel shot-gun with such
effect as to keep them at bay until assistance arrived; but he was
very badly wounded himself. Two or three arrests have been made of
suspected parties in the neighborhood. |
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