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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Longstreet or search for Longstreet in all documents.
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Affairs in East Tennessee.
--It appear hard to get a fight out of the Yankees in East Tennessee Gen. Longstreet offered the battle on Sunday and Monday last, but they retreated from his front.--The Bristol Gazette says:
On Sunday last, our forces endeavored to flank a portion of the enemy's column near Vorsey Creek, and after a sharp skirmish, they retreated to Straw, berry Plains Skirmishing is all that can be got out of the tory army of East Tennessee.
In one of the skirmishes referred to Major Goforth son of J. S. Goforth, the Superintendent of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, was severely, and Lt. Gibbs slightly wounded.
The enemy are said to be entirely without cavalry, and wholly destitute of wagons for even foraging purposes, and they are stealing the last morsel of food in the hands of citizens in that vicinity.
We have captured a small for of prisoners.
Among the recent prisoners who have fallen into our hands, is the notorious scoundrel, Wm Doug