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Gen. J. C. Vaughn telegraphs to Knoxville from Richmond, under date of the 16th, that the prisoners from East Tennessee, paroled at Vicksburg and elsewhere, will rendezvous at some point in East Tennessee, instead of Demopolis, Ala.
All parties leaving Columbus, Ga., whether ladies or gentlemen, are obliged to pay one dollar for passports.
Five thousand Texans have arrived at Morton, Miss., since the fall of Vicksburg, and five thousand more are coming.
The Exchange Hotel, East Tennessee, instead of Demopolis, Ala.
All parties leaving Columbus, Ga., whether ladies or gentlemen, are obliged to pay one dollar for passports.
Five thousand Texans have arrived at Morton, Miss., since the fall of Vicksburg, and five thousand more are coming.
The Exchange Hotel, at Danville, Va., has been sold, with 127 acres of land near there, for $38,000.
Rev. Thos. Murphy, a Catholic priest, of Wilmington, N. C., died on the 20th inst.
Hon. Thos. H. Watts, Governor elect of Alabama, is on a visit to Montgomery, Ala.
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our Army Correspondence. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our Army Correspondence. (search)
The military situation of Chattanooga.
--Military men, fully acquainted with the location and surroundings of Chattanooga, have pronounced that point the strongest in the Confederate States. General Floyd, while passing through that city on his retreat from Middle Tennessee in 1862, is reported to have said that 10,000 men could hold the country from Bridgeport to Chattanooga against 80,000.
Similar opinions have been expressed by the most experienced engineers in the army.
This is at present Gen. Bragg's line of defence.
His base is supported by the rich and grain-growing States of Alabama and Georgia; the location is one of the healthiest on the Western continent; his commissariat is said to be ample; he has an army of veteran soldiers and the assistance of the ablest Generals in the Confederacy.
His adversary, in order to attack him, must leave his base some 350 miles in his rear; cross, first, a plain of 150 miles, made desolate by the two contending armies in the early s