| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| June 16, 1864 |
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| Concord Depot, June14--2 P. M. |
| I left Lynchburg this morning
at 9 o'clock, and reached this place, which is on the Southside
Railroad, thirteen miles from Lynchburg, at noon. A raiding party,
about 154 strong, crossed James river last night, a short distance
below Gall's Mill, which is fourteen miles below Lynchburg, and
reached this depot at two o'clock this morning. They burned the depot
here, commissary building, and the Agent's office, water tanks,
wood-house, and a train of cars loading with blacksmiths' tools,
&c. They also destroyed the locomotive
attached to the train, cut the telegraph wire, and tore up and burned
fifty or sixty yards of the track. The track is now repaired and
trains passing over it, and the telegraph wire will be connected in a
short time, and an office established at this place. No private
buildings were burned, nor any private property destroyed, with the
exception of the store-room and contents belonging to Mr. J. L.
Arrington, the Depot Agent at this place. |
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