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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Restress of the Confederate from Knoxville-- of artillery (search)
bushels of letters — the accumulation of two weeks. Four valuable locomotives and a great number of box-cars, loaded with stores, were run into the river, several pieces of artillery which could not be removed mat with the same fate, and, in a word, everything was destroyed which could afford "aid and comfort" either to the enemy or ourselves. On the 1st or 2d of the present month the advance of the Federal cavalry arrived at London. A few hundred Tennessean, under Gen. Vaughn and Col. Rucker, (of Island No.10 memory,) made a brief stand, but being overpowered by the superior numbers were compelled to retreat, and the town once more fell into Federal hands. Our long wagon trains were now hastily set in motion, and on the night of the second moved around Knoxville, and traveled several miles on the Morristown turnpike, at which point they subsequently halted and awaited orders. Burnside meanwhile was firing signal guns to notify the advancing Federal that he still remained in