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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
e temporarily placed with the Second Kentucky Regiment, under Colonel Hanson. While with him, we made a dash into the country about sixty miles through rain and mud, which I assure you took the wire edge off the boys. We were sadly disappointed at not meeting the "Yanks." The expedition proved a kind of Chessa or swing-corner affair. You all may rest assured that we will whip them whenever we meet them, for there is no such word as fail in our lexicon. An old gentleman from Cocke county, Tennessee, with whom I enjoyed a long conversation, informs me that the Union element of East Tennessee has entirely disappeared, and the Government will have no further trouble with the traitors. The proclamation of Lead better has had the effect of crushing out the treason of that fertile and wealthy portion of the State. The recreants are hastening to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. To use the expression of the old gentleman, "they are falling over each other to take the