NP, MAP 9/7/1861

From the Memphis Appeal
 
September 7, 1861
 
Accident to Troops
   On Saturday night last, two trains left Bristol for Lynchburg {Virginia & Tennessee RR}, laden with a regiment of the Polish brigade, from Louisiana, and a couple of independent Georgia companies. The trains were not far apart, and while the foremost was going up a heavy grade near Abington, the coupling between two of the cars broke, detaching six cars, which at once started backward down the grade, and came into collision with the train which was following. Two of the cars were smashed to pieces, killing one soldier outright, and wounding some fourteen others, of whom two died the following day. The wounded were taken to Abington, and properly cared for.
Knoxville Register, 5th

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