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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Winchester, July 9th. (search)
, and losing no time, he destroyed utterly and beyond repair two splendid iron bridges over the North and South branches of the Potomac. They were of Finks's patent, and, except the bridge at Fairmont, the best and finest by far of any on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. One was 400 feet in length, the other 533--were shutdown with artillery, and fell thirty odd feet below, presenting a wreck as never was seen. He then burnt the railroad bridges over Little Caper, over Potomac Creek, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and over Everet's Creek, near Cumberland, made two crevasses in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that can't be filled in two months; burnt all the depots, water-tanks and stationary engines between Caper and Cumberland, captured thirty or forty prisoners, sixty or seventy horses, and sent out over five hundred fat cattle. On the 17th, Col. George, of Imboden command, drove a Yankee battalion out of Cumberland by shelling them in the streets, and the Mayor surrendered the