The retreating Confederate Army burned the 110 foot high trestle bridge over Running Water Creek, near Whiteside in Marion County, cutting the Nashville to Chattanooga Railroad, a 115 mile line vital to Union supply lines. The 780 foot bridge was rebuilt during October and November 1863 at a cost of $59,000, one of the Union's great feats of engineering in the war. The N. & C. Railroad was repaired and running by January 1865. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Richard E. Prince, The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway: History and Steam Locomotives (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001), 10.
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