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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) or search for Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) in all documents.
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Runaway.
--Left our store, on the 25th of August, a negro man named John, the property of Dr. A. Leyburn, of Lexington, Va., John is about 6 feet high, of a bright, gingerbread color, spare built, and very likely.
He speaks in a low tone, and is very polite and plausible in manner.
He may be lurking in or near Sidney, as he had a room above the Old Fair Grounds, on Main street, or he may have followed some one in the army as it passed through to Tennessee.
We will give $50 for his arrest in or near the city, or $100 if he be lodged in any jail in or out of the State, where we can get him. Hill & Norfleet. [se 30--8t]
From East Tennessee, [from our own Correspondent.] Bristol, Sept. 29th.
--The enemy are undoubtedly going back.
They are commanded by Burnside in person, who came to this place.
Their force is variously estimated at from five to fifty thousand.
General Williams attacked their rear guard yesterday in the vicinity of Jonesboro', killing twelve and wounding fifty.
He also captured from two hundred to four hundred carbines, and forty horses.
Our loss was one wounded. B.
Arrival of Yankees.
--There arrived in this city last night, by the Petersburg train, one thousand five hundred and fifty-four Yankee prisoners.
This is the first instalment of Rosecrans's army captured by Gen. Bragg's forces in the recent battles in Tennessee which have reached here.
More may be expected soon.
They were lodged in the Libby prison.