NP, RD 6/16/1864

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
June 16, 1864
 
Concord Depot, June14--2 P. M.
   I left Lynchburg this morning at 9 o'clock, and reached this place, which is on the Southside Railroad, thirteen miles from Lynchburg, at noon. A raiding party, about 154 strong, crossed James river last night, a short distance below Gall's Mill, which is fourteen miles below Lynchburg, and reached this depot at two o'clock this morning. They burned the depot here, commissary building, and the Agent's office, water tanks, wood-house, and a train of cars loading with blacksmiths' tools, &c. They also destroyed the locomotive attached to the train, cut the telegraph wire, and tore up and burned fifty or sixty yards of the track. The track is now repaired and trains passing over it, and the telegraph wire will be connected in a short time, and an office established at this place. No private buildings were burned, nor any private property destroyed, with the exception of the store-room and contents belonging to Mr. J. L. Arrington, the Depot Agent at this place.

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