I am looking for a solid source/reference for the destruction of the bridge at Loudon across the Tennessee River on September 6, 1863. Brigadier John C. Vaughn was ordered on December 2nd to complete the destruction of the bridge and what supplies he could not bring with him. O.R., XXXI, 3, 779.

However, this does not describe its destruction. On December 3rd the remnants of the bridge were burned and three to four locomotives and fifty to one hundred boxcars where then run off into the Tennessee River.

The sources I have seen in the past that refers to this event are secondary sources and I want to find the primary sources. I have already checked the Official Records, Longstreet, and Sorrel and found nothing.

Thank you in advance.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civil War Concentration
Research - Preservation
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment