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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], From East Tennessee. (search)
army has gone into winter quarters. The destruction of property at Chattanooga has been immense. Scarcely a tree has been left standing in or around the town, and fences, palings, and framed houses have shared in the general destruction. There is not a fence in a dozen miles of town. The fine residence of Mr. J. Suider was torn down and the lumber burnt for firewood. The machinery of the rolling mill, which was being erected by S. B. Lowe & Co., was buried, but an old man named Riley pointed out the spot where it was interred, and when our informants left a number or Yankees were engaged in resurrecting it. They had also dug up a steam engine buried by Thomas Webster & Co., near their foundry, and taking it, together with the engine belonging to the Rebel office, and one they had taken from D. Kaylor, and placed them at the river, and were throwing water upon Hog Hill, and from that point distributing it throughout the town and their camps by the aid of troughs. The