I'm away from my home library so I cannot give you many details.

However, the Strawberry Plains [Virginia and East Tenn.] railroad bridge across the Holstein was the subject of the infamous Unionist bridge burnings in 1862.

There is also considerable coverage given to the bridge and
the Stringfield home just north of the bridge near the RR depot in Vernon H. Crow's "Storm in the Mountains, Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers." Press of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, NC 1982.

George Martin