We learn from a reliable source that the prisoners who were taken at the fight at Bloomery Gap, by Gen. Lander, express a desire to enlist in the Union army. They were sent on Thursday to Camp Chase, and the officer who had a portion of them in command informed us that the privates thus expressed themselves. One of them was asked in Cumberland whether he would prefer the prison or the confederate army. He replied that he would much rather be in prison. The question was then asked: How came you in the secesh army? He replied: I was forced into the army. On being asked by whom, he replied, pointing to Col. Baldwin, his commander: There is the villain that forced me into the rebel service. Such, no doubt, is the feeling of more than one half the private soldiers in the rebel army. Oh! how black the crime of these rebel leaders! How will they ever expiate the guilt that rests upon their heads?
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Tired of secession.--The Wheeling Press of February twenty-second says:
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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