NP, RD 11/13C/1861

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
November 13, 1861
  
Report from East Tennessee
   The rumors in regard to the burning of bridges on the waters of the Holston, in East Tennessee, have subsided into the authenticated fact that the only ones successfully fired this side of Knoxville, are the Union Station bridge, ten miles from Bristol {on the East Tennessee & Virginia RR}, and another at Lick Creek, further on. Some two hundred feet of the bridge first named were destroyed, and it will require but a short time to restore it sufficiently for the running of the trains.
   There are reports of the burning of two bridges on the Georgia and Tennessee {East Tennessee & Georgia} railroad, and some facts have been communicated to us relative to an attempt to burn the long bridge at Strawberry Plain, near Knoxville {on the East Tennessee & Virginia RR}. The man who was stationed there to guard it saw fifteen men approaching, and used his pistol and double barrel shot-gun with such effect as to keep them at bay until assistance arrived; but he was very badly wounded himself. Two or three arrests have been made of suspected parties in the neighborhood.

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