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shot before they will obey the order. They want to fight their way into Tennessee, where their families are starving, plundered, and oppressed, because the heads of their families are in the United States service. Let it be remembered that while our Generals find it impracticable to cross into East Tennessee with an army and its necessary transportation, Bragg and Kirby Smith can cross the same mountains into Kentucky and invade that State.--Let our Government, then, turn over to Brigadier-General Carter or Spears this Cumberland Gap army and its accompaniments, and I will under-write that they will go into East Tennessee, take the country, and bold it. I now propose to the Government, in good faith to give me the command of fifteen thousand men, including those East Tennessee regiments, and all the outfit necessary, and I promise to take East Tennessee before Christmas, and to hold it and its railroads. I am in earnest in making this request. I am sick and tired of this crim