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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 103 (search)
during the war. With a dash and daring uneclipsed by any cavalry raid directed for similar purpose against the enemy during the war, Major Jacobs destroyed and laid in ruins the costly structure known as the Rocky Mount railroad bridge over Tar River, on the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, and the connecting link, by this route, of Richmond with Wilmington and the far South. The bridge was the most expensive to construct in the State, and was over four hundred feet long. It wi similar dimensions, containing quartermaster's stores, such as camp equipage, wagons, harness, etc. 7. The railroad depot, consisting of two large brick buildings. 8. About six hundred bales of cotton. 9. The extensive bridge over the Tar River, the destruction of which was attended with probably more inconvenience and distress than any other event during the expedition. The work of demolition in Tarboro was accomplished without much resistance, so sudden was our arrival, and so al