| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| April 18, 1864 |
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| The Confederates in East Tennessee |
| It appears that the Yankees are again slowly
following up Longstreet, under the impression that he is about to
leave East Tennessee. A letter from Knoxville, dated the 2d inst.,
says: |
| The rebel army continues to get away from
our front, and appears to be going for good. As evidence of this, they
are destroying the railroad bridges, and taking up the rails
and carrying them off, cutting down and carrying away the telegraph
wire along the route, and laying waste the country as they retire.
This they are doing, not hurriedly, but deliberately and thoroughly as
they go. ***** |
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