| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| December 17, 1863 |
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| Averill's movements in Western Virginia |
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| Averill, finding the way open and his
course unopposed, moved on to Salem, on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, which point he reached
yesterday morning. Here they burned the court-house and one or two
other buildings, including the railroad depot. |
| Information received last night states
that the rolling stock of the railroad
was saved by being run off on the approach of the enemy. |
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