| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| May 26, 1862 |
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| Sappers and Miners |
| The Knoxville Register, of the 22d,
publishes a paragraph which shows the efficiency of the branch of the
service which heads this article. |
| We have been permitted to peruse a letter
to a gentleman in this city, from Lieutenant G. R. Margraves,
commanding a company of Sappers and Miners near Chattanooga, from
which we learn that the bridge over Lookout Creek {on
the Nashville & Chattanooga RR}, recently burnt, has
been repaired, and that the railroad
connection between Chattanooga and Bridgeport is again complete; thus
reopening the supply of coal to our Southern foundries and factories.
This company of Sappers and Miners, by their industry on this as well
as other occasions, have rendered most efficient service to the
Confederacy, and Lieut. Margraves is winning for himself an enviable
reputation as an energetic and skillful military engineer. |
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