NP, ASCY 6/27/1863

From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Ga.)
 
June 27, 1863
 
Escape of the Yankee Raiders
   The {Knoxville} Register of the 25th says:
   A courier arrived in this city yesterday morning, bringing information that the Yankee raiders were safe across the mountains. They were so closely pursued by Col. Scott, that they burned their artillery carriages, and left the cannon and nearly all their baggage, but lost but few prisoners. They crossed on the evening of the 22d, at Childer's Gap. *****
East Tenn. & Va. Railroad
   We have seen a letter from President Branner of this road, dated Monday, which says that the trains will run on mail schedule daily from Mossy Creek to Bristol and back -- leaving Mossy Creek at 2 1/2 o'clock P. M. and arriving at Bristol at 11. returning they will leave Bristol 9 P. M. and arriving at Mossy Creek at 6 A. M. No arrangements at present, owing to the destruction of the bridges, and the fact that the rolling stock is all on the other end of the road, can be made for transporting passengers from this city by rail to Mossy Creek. We trust, however, that some enterprising person will get up a state line between the two points, that travel and the mails may be at once resumed over the route.
Damage Done by the Enemy
   The Yankee raiders cut the telegraph wires and tore up a considerable portion of the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad. At last accounts they had destroyed the bridges across Flat Creek and other small bridges between this and Strawberry Plains. *****

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