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would volunteer and fight for the Southern Confederacy. And we learn, further, that every man is volunteering, and that old Arkansas will roll up twenty-five or thirty thousand new recruits for the war. Three cheers for old Arkansas!. Generals Pillow and Buckner. Gen. Pillow has addressed a note to the Memphis Avalanche, in reply to some strictures in that journal in regard to some allusions, in his late speech and report, to Gen. Buckner. He claims that his report is a truthful hisGen. Pillow has addressed a note to the Memphis Avalanche, in reply to some strictures in that journal in regard to some allusions, in his late speech and report, to Gen. Buckner. He claims that his report is a truthful history of the battles as he saw them — denies that there is any issue of fact between Gen. Buckner and himself, and disclaims any unkind feeling towards that gallant officer. "On the contrary," he says, "our personal and official intercourse has been, and was to the last moment, courteous and kind." The Yankees in Nashville. Notwithstanding the assurances given by the Yankees, (says the Knoxville Register,) on their arrival in Nashville, that peaceable citizens should not be molested,
loss to themselves of at least as great a number in killed and wounded. An intelligent and respectable gentleman, who was a participant in that bloody fight, informs one of our citizens that, in his escape from the fort, he might, have walked for three miles over the dead bodies of Yankees; and that, whilst making his way, as best he could, from the enemy's lines, by which he was surrounded, he repeatedly heard them saying that they had lost five thousand killed and six thousand wounded Gen. Pillow states in his report, that our entire force consisted of only twelve thousand men, whilst the Lincolnites outnumbered us four to one; so that, against such tremendous odds, our little army killed and disabled a number equal to its entire force! Nor is the capture of Nashville a subject of such unmingled gratification to the invaders as they had fondly anticipated. They do not hesitate to confess their mortification that no display of Union flags was made in Nashville, and no demonst