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From east Tennessee. [from our Own Correspondent.] Bristol, Tenn., Sept. 25.
In order to give a general idea of the situation hereabouts I will state that the main body of our forces held Zollicoffer and Carter's Depot previous to Wednesday last.
On that day the forces at Carter's Depot or Watauga bridge were ordered to fall back to Zollicoffer, which they did. The enemy then took possession of Carter's and held it until late Saturday evening, when they burned the depot and the bridge, which is several hundred yards long and fifty or sixty feet high, and evacuated the place, retiring in the direction of Knoxville.
Early Sunday morning our forces at Zollicoffer moved forward in pursuit, and Jonesboro' was occupied by our cavalry last night.--The affair at Blountsville on Tuesday last is represented to have been well contested on the part of our forces, numbering only some 600 or 700 in all. Three pieces of Davidson's Lynchburg battery was engaged, and behaved gallantly, and
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]
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Two hundred and fifty dollars reward. (search)
Later from the North.
Baltimore papers, of the 29th instant, have been received.
They contain but little of interest from the United States.
We subjoin a summary of the reports from Tennessee:
A correspondent of the New York Times, at Washington, states that Gen. Rosecrans, in his official dispatches, charges the loss of the late battle to Gen. McCook's disobedience of orders; in failing to occupy an important position that had been assigned to him.
A telegram dated Cincinnat Rosecrans.
The blockade runners Fox, Alabama, and Montgomery, were recently captured by the Federal cruisers in the vicinity of Ship Island.
Efforts are being made by the Unionists to have Gen. A. B. Campbell installed as Governor of Tennessee.
Col. Trusten Polk, formerly United States Senator from Missouri, with his wife and daughter, was captured at Bolivar Landing, Ark., on the 18th.
Gen. Hooker left Washington Monday to enter upon active service — destination not stated