ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19.
A Union scout who has been operating up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers reached here this morning, and reports that one span of the Memphis and Charleston R. R. bridge crossing the Tennessee at Decatur, Ala., was destroyed on Saturday last by Union men in that vicinity.
It was reported that the bridge at Bridgeport, some seventy miles above had been destroyed, but this is not confirmed.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 1
