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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Restress of the Confederate from Knoxville-- of artillery (search)
n to believe that it will not be equality so in the present instance. A majority of the ladies of Knoxville are warm Southerners, and there should be no apprehension that these noble-hearted women will prove recreant to the humane instincts and abundant sympathy which they have ever manifested in relieving the needs of suffering humanity. The present position of the army is all that could be desired. On the one flank we have Clinch river and Clinch mountain, on the other flank the Holston river, while the whole country abounds in strong points capable of easy defence. We are within a comparatively few miles of the Cumberland mountains, and occupy a threatening relation to West Tennessee and Kentucky. The success of the campaign would undoubtedly have compelled a retrograde movement of the forces at Chattanooga. It is not uncertain that our very presence here at this time may not lead to an entire alteration of the plans of Gen. Grant, including the abandonment of his designs
New Market, Feb. 15. --Northern papers received confirm the disbanding of Wilcon's six months corps. It re-enlisted under the offer of sixty days furlough and $475 bounty. Restrictions on trade in Missouri and Kentucky have been removed by Chase. Some slight skirmishing occurred yesterday beyond the Holston river. Lieut.--Col. Witcher Jones's brigade captured twenty-one wagons and teams on the 12th inst.; also, one officer and nine men.
The body of Rev. H R Swisher, drowned in the Holston river at Zollicoffer, Tenn., on the 30th December last, was found 25 miles below on Sunday, the 12th. it has been interred at Greensville, Tenn.
t days of anarchy and social crime. A low Dutchman, from from the political cesspools of Northern Europe, is in command of the district between Knoxville and Greenville. is said to have twelve thousand ruffians under his command staff fled along the railroad from Strawberry Plains to Mossy Creek. Their conduct is most wanton and outrageous, exceeding anything that has transpired during the war. A few days since they burned the fine mills and private dwelling of Mr. Massengill, on the Holston river Massengill was an old man some eighty years of age. His wife, about seventy years of age, was lying at the point of death when the ruffians applied the torch to her bed room. She asked them to carry her out of the room, and not to burn her alive in her own houses. After some hesitation the leader of the clan — a member of Brownlow's regiment — carried her out into the back yard on her bed, and remarked to the dying woman that she was getting her "Southern rights" The old man, they tied
of this new constitution is the extinction of slavery. From the Valley. Passengers from the Valley by last night's train report no news whatever from Sheridan. Every day, however, records some new development of his infernal actions. The iron works of John. T. Lewis, near Brown's gap, were destroyed by Sheridan's troops, and D. S. Lewis, a son of the proprietor, and all persons connected with the works, were taken prisoners. From Tennessee. The bridge across the Holston river at Zollicoffer, on the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, is rebuilt, and our trains are crossing. At Carter's station, on the Watauga, the bridge is finished, and the trains passed over yesterday. At last accounts there were no enemy fifteen miles this side of Knoxville. Major Day had driven off a regiment of cavalry from Bull's gap. Flag of Truce. The Federal flag-of-truce boat New York, Major Mulford, has arrived at Varina with one hundred and sixty-eight co
Spring, a depot on the railroad, thirteen miles this side of Abingdon, taking every one there by surprise and capturing all of the railroad employees except one, who managed to escape to tell the tale. At last accounts, the enemy were pushing up the railroad in the direction of Marion, which is twenty-seven miles on this side of Abingdon. This is a raid in Breckinridge's rear. The raiders, leaving his forces somewhere in the neighborhood of Knoxville, came up the north side of the Holstein river and crossed over to Bristol. It is probable the raiders separated, one party proceeding to Bristol and the other to Abingdon. If unchecked, it is likely they will come up the railroad even as far as Salem, and thence escape to Kanawha by the route followed by Hunter last summer. It is unknown who is in command of this expedition, but it looks very much like some of Stoneman's galloping work. None of the dispatches received say anything about Saltville. If it is unprotected, it h
fications. Capture of a Torpedo Expedition. The Chattanooga Gazette has lengthy details of the capture of a Confederate yawl and fourteen men, at Clapman's landing, below Kingston, on the Tennessee, by seven Tennesseans. The yawl was armed with torpedoes, intended for the destruction of Government property. The party were regularly uniformed, and acted under the orders of the rebel Navy Department. The yawl was built at Richmond, brought to Bristol on the cars, placed in the Holston river, and moved thence with muffled oars to the place of its capture. Their instructions were not to destroy or disturb anything until they got below Kingston, where they were to destroy the Government transports. They hoped, also, to destroy the warehouses, rolling-mills, etc., on the banks of the river at this place. The whole enterprise was in charge of a scientific officer. Report of the Federal Secretary of war. The Yankee Secretary of War, Friday, sent to Congress his annual