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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], President Davis in Tennessee. (search)
whole train was not precipitated over the bluffs of the Tennessee. As it was — thanks to the caution and steadiness of nerve of the engineer — very little damage was done, and the accident, which was certainly unavoidable, was soon remedied. Col. Cole gathered about him in a trice a small army of mechanics and engineers, and in thirty minutes by the watch had a new wheel and axle set, the car shifted, the mail train on a side track, and the Presidential convoy, with colors flying, once more . The train reached Bridgeport at midday. The carriage bearing the President and party was detached from the locomotive and shifted from terra firma to the deck of a barge prepared for that purpose, under the attentive supervision of Superintendent Cole, and in less time than it takes to tell it was floating on the Tennessee, and towed across to the opposite bank, to the accompaniment of rolling drums and reverberating cannon. The battery of the Washington Artillery fired a salute of 13