CLEVELAND, TENN.,
November 11, 1861.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, President:
Several bridges burned on E. T. Road. The country in great excitement and terror. The Twenty-third Regiment, Colonel Hutcherson's. Georgia Volunteers, leaving Camp McDonald to-day for Richmond. Can you order them temporarily to Knoxville, Tenn.? You could dispatch to Marietta and Augusta, Ga.
J. W. LEWIS. Supt. E. T. and Va. R. R.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
Series I, Volume 4 (Serial No. 4), p. 235
