From the South.
Our Southern exchanges furnish some items of news.
The firing on the flag of truce in
Tennessee was a serious affair, and resulted in a loss of 16 killed, wounded, and missing, on the
Confederate side.
A letter to the Knoxville
Register, dated Camp Evans, July 24th, gives the following account of the affair:
Majors Yiazi and
Cobb having been to the enemy's lines, and handed over the two Surgeons recently captured at
Murfreesboro', were returning in the direction of
Tazewell.
They were accompanied by some Federal officers, who rode at the head of the column.
When about three- miles from the river, where the road leading from
Tazewell to the
Gap forks--one le by the bridge, the other by the ford — the rear of the escort (
Capt. Langford's company) was first fire into.
They immediately spurred their horses and pushed forward at the best speed.
Their front war met with a murderous fire.
In vain did
Col. Keigoin, of the 42d Indiana regiment, call to them to cease firing, as they were firing spouse was your flag of truce." Firing until they could see no object to fire at, they ceased, every horse having been killed or had thrown his rider.
So soon as they had found out they were firing on a flag of truce, they laid down their arms, pick, the nearest houses.
Wagons were immediately sent for at the
Gap.
They came and rendered all the aid that humanity could dictate.
Lieut Kimbrough and
private George O. Moody were instantly killed.
Twelve others were wounded — some of them seriously.
R. W. Walker,
James Kennedy,
T. G. Rogers,
A. G. Langford,
John Bowers,
N. Y. Colvin,
W. W. Lloyd, are those whose wounds are the most dangerous.
R. A. Armstrong,
W. G. Taylor,
J. P. Rhoton,
Samuel Moser and others are slightly wounded.
Capt. Langford,
M. J. Dobklus,
H. C. Dameron and
W. W. Carter are missing up to this hour--(of the 24th, 7 o'clock A. M.) Many fears are entertained for their safety.
The captain is supposed to be wounded.
Gen. Morgan tries to excuse himself by saying that he had ordered
Colonel Carter's regiment to make a forced march, and cut off our advance pickets at
Big Springs.
He says that he then received intelligence of our cavalry going in the direction of the
Gap under a flag of truce.
He then says that he saw an order to
Col. Carter that a flag of truce was within their lines, and not to fire on them.
Col. Carter excuses himself by saying that he never received any order whatever.
Miserable excuse for such a cold-blooded murder, unparalleled in the annals of war. It appears that it was a premeditated affair on the part of
Col. Carter.
He had stationed his men for more than a mile in ambush.
He then was too cowardly to halt our squadron, after having been told by citizens that it was a flag of truced Some of his own men told him that it was a flag of truce, and did not fire at all.
Put the best face on this we may, there is something dark and criminal about the unformatted and fatal affair.
Sorrow and gloom pervades the encampment of the Peck Light Dragoons.
Those youths that fell were noble young men.
Lieut. Kimbrough was a promising officer, much beloved by the entire command.
Federal Barbarity.
We published a few days ago an order issued by
Lieut.-Col. Parkhurst, one of the
Federal officers captured by
Forrest, when in command of
Murfreesboro', prohibiting all business and professional men in that place from pursuing their calling, unless they should take the oath of allegiance to the
United States.
The order embraced ministers of the Gospel.
Gen. Caswell, who resides a few miles from
Knoxville, recently received a letter giving an account of the death of his aged mother at
Murfreesboro'. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church in that town, of which Dr, Egleton is pastor, and had been a member for perhaps 50 years, In consequence of the barbarous edict her remains were interred without any funeral services — not even a prayer was offered at the grave.
A Negro's prayer in Memphis.
Tom, the preacher at the African church in
Memphis, delivered the following prayer there on the 15th ult. The Yankee provost guard, it is presumed, were not ‘"around."’
O,
Lord, hab mercy on us all ! Bless our land and country.
Grants us rain, that we hab good crops, and blessed with plenty in this time of trouble.
children. They have been kind and good to us; bless them in these troublesome times.
O,
Lord, bless
massa Jeff. Davis ! O,
Lord, bless our army and our brave soldiers, that are fighting the battle of our country against our enemies that are invading our happy country.
O,
Lord, give them success ! O,
Lord, bless our sick and wounded soldiers, and grant that they may be restored to health, and enabled to go and join their brothers in fighting the battles of our country against our enemies — Bless us all as thou seest we need, and take care of us, and save us, is my prayer.
Amen.
A Straggler caught.
The
Dalton (Ga.) Times says
‘
a stranger arrived in that city a few days since and put up at the-Las seen
House, of whom the following is a history:
The next day he entered the room of a gentlemen, who was asleep, and attempted to steal his pocket-book; but in this he was failed, as the gentleman happened to wake just as the thief was in the act of slipping the stolen article in his pocket.
He was immediately arrested and lodged in jail.--He first said his name was
Roberson, and afterwards
Griffin; that he was from
Boston; belonged to the City Guards from that city, a company in
McClellan's army; that he was in the recent battles near
Richmond; that he got separated from the army when
McClellan retreated, went to
Richmond, Joined a Confederate cavalry company, bought (
stole) a transportation ticket from a soldier named
A. G. Roberson, belonging to the 10th Alabama regiment, and was on his way to see an adut residing in
Montgomery.
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