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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
th of property, among which was a few thousand dollars worth of condemned and unserviceable Government stores. Nine rebel guns, captured at Rome by our troops, were burst, it being deemed unsafe to use them. One thousand bales of fine cotton, two flour mills, two rolling mills, two tanneries, one saw mill, an extensive foundry, several machine shops, together with the railroad depots and storehouses, four pontoon bridges, built by General Corse's pioneer corps for use on the Coosa and Etowah rivers, and a substantial trestle bridge nearly completed for use, were destroyed.--This trestle was constructed by the engineer corps, and, I am told, would have cost fifty thousand dollars North. Recollecting the gross outrages which I alluded to above as being perpetrated upon Colonel Streight by the "Romans," our troops, as soon as they learned that the town was to be abandoned and a portion of it burned, resolved to lay Rome in ashes in revenge for insults offered to our prisoners. Gener