| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| June 20, 1863 |
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| Letters From Chattanooga |
| Special Correspondence of Memphis Appeal |
| Chattanooga, June 19, 1863 |
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| Subsequent dispatches informed
Gen. Jackson that the East Tennessee renegade and Abolitionist Carter,
with a force two thousand strong, was within a few miles of the
village of Loudon, on the Tennessee river, this morning at ten
o'clock. No apprehension was felt at the time, of danger to the East
Tennessee & Virginia railroad, between this place and Knoxville,
nor of the destruction of any of the bridges. Our troops at Loudon
were drawn up in line-of-battle, awaiting the approach of the raiders.
Loudon bridge is immensely strong with stockade forts, and supplied
with artillery. The other bridges are similarly strengthened, along
the line. |
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