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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees and East Tennessee . (search)
The Yankees and East Tennessee.
--The Knoxville Register publishes the following letter, picked up at Cumberland Gap, after its evacuation by the Abolitionists:
Cumberland Gap, Sept. 12, 1862, 8 P. M. Dr. Foster, Esq., Cincinnati:Dear Harry:
I seize a moment to write you a few lines, which I send you by a courier that starts for Somerset now in a few minutes. The devil is to pay this evening.
We evacuate this infernal place to-night.
While I am writing this some of the Ohio boys are now passing out on their way to the Ohio.
These d — d East Tennessee renegades General Morgan is almost disposed to leave behind, to the tender mercy of the rebels.
I tell you, Harry, they (I mean these infernal renegades from Tennessee) are the most complete nuisance a white man ever had to endure.
They are an ill-natured, cross-grained set of worthless ours, cowardly, mean, trifling, contemptible offspring of weak humanity.
I think we will run the gauntlet safely.
The General has