NP, RR 6/27/1863

From the Raleigh Register
 
June 27, 1863
 
Knoxville, June 22
   The raiders left here on Saturday at 10 o'clock and reached Strawberry Plains at 5 p. m. After a brief fire of half an hour our troops were captured.
   The enemy paroled 130 prisoners. They burnt the bridge {on the East Tennessee & Virginia RR}, depot buildings and three or four private dwellings, and filed others, and proceeded to New Market by Mossy Creek, on Sunday, where they burned the bridge, tore up the railroad track and cut the wires as far as they went.
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