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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], From East Tennessee. (search)
ng garrison in East Tennessee, move down, connect with the armies of the West, and force our armies on Atlanta and Augusta. Let us yield no more territory to the enemy. It is a suicidal policy. Territory has been yielded in East Tennessee sufficient to furnish supplies annually to an army of 40,000 men. We hope for a brighter day for this fated country, and bide time for the result. On the advance of Longstreet into East Tennessee, all the prominent Union men of the counties of Jefferson and Granger left for Kentucky. Many of them were eighty years of age. But they had committed themselves in assisting in the arrest of Southern men. They heard that they would be arrested and held as hostages for the safe return of Southern men to Camp Chase. Some have come back cured of their trip. Bushwhackers are here by the thousand--more numerous than ever. Green and Carter counties are invested with this class to a great extent. Dangerous to travel alone in those counties. They