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e present; but, since it has found its way into the newspapers, it need not be disguised that he is in command of our forces now operating in East Tennessee. The letter published in the New York Herald, purporting to have been written by Col. Northrop, Commissary General of the Confederate States, to the Secretary of War, in relation to an apprehended scarcity of supplies, and detailing his interview with certain Southern Governors at Milledgeville and with Gen. Bragg at Dalton, is a transparent forgery. No such trip was ever made by Colonel Northrop, and Gen. Bragg never saw him or wrote to him on the subject. At the time spoken of, Gen. B. was at Tullahoma. Persons visiting their friends in the army would do well to bring their blankets with them; for neither officers nor men have enough to share even with brothers and fathers. When the visit is completed, they might do another good thing, and that is, leave their blankets with their army friends. The weather is cl