| From the Lynchburg Virginian |
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| January 16, 1863 |
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| The Surprise at Holly Springs -- Immense Destruction |
| We have already published a statement from
the correspondent of the New York Tribune, who estimates the
Yankee loss at Holly Springs at $6,000,000. The following account is
given by an eye witness to the affair. *** The Southern account from
an eye witness says: |
| *** The extensive buildings of the
Mississippi Central depot, the station house, the engine houses, and
immense store houses were filled with supplies of clothing and
commissary stores. |
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| As there was no time to remove these
immense stores from the buildings containing them, they were all
destroyed, comprising the Mississippi Central depot, engine houses and
store houses, the most elegant and capacious in all the South, the
courthouse, livery stable, and the largest buildings on the public
square. |
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