| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
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| March 8, 1862 |
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| Letter from "Nestor" |
| Lynchburg, Va. Feb.28, 1862 |
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| Dear Confederacy, |
| I informed you in my letter of
the 16th inst. respecting the division made by the War Department of
Gen. Loring's late command, and also the different departments to
which the several brigades had been transferred. For want of
transportation the regiments ordered to report to Gen. A. Sidney
Johnston, at Knoxville, Tennessee, were detained several days at camp
Mason after the reception of the order from the Adjutant General. We
left the vicinity of Winchester on the 20th inst., but in consequence
of the great difficulty of procuring transportation on the Manassas
Gap and the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, we did not get to this
city till Monday morning, 24th instant. Upon our arrival here we found
that we could not prosecute our journey further by this route until
some damages on the Tennessee & Virginia Railroad, caused by the
recent very heavy rains in this section, could be repaired. I am
informed that there are not less than seventeen land slides on that
road between Dublin and Bristol. Besides these slides several culverts
have been greatly impaired, and the trestle work in many places
materially damaged. I learn there are seven or eight hundred hands now
at work repairing this road, but it will take them some time -- at
least five or six days -- to get it in a condition for trains to pass
over it. |
| Thus, you perceive, the most
direct and main line of communication and transportation between this
State and the West is entirely cut off for awhile. ***** |
| Two piers of the bridge
connecting the South Side Railroad depot with the Island in James
River, was burned last Thursday evening. By the active efforts of the
soldiers and citizens the three remaining piers were saved from the
flames, despite the heavy gale then prevailing. ***** |
| Nestor |
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