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since, spoke of a Virginian who had been lost from his company during the fight and fell in with a Georgia regiment just as their standard bearer fell. The lost Virginian asked leave to bear the colors. It was granted to him. He bore them bravely. The flag was shot through three times, and the flag-staff was shot off whilst in his hands. But he planted the flag on the Sherman Battery, and our brave men stood up to their colors and took the battery. That Virginian was E. P. Paxton, of Rockbridge. To the people of East Tennessee. In assuming command of the military forces of this division, I cannot forbear an earnest appeal to all who have preferred the old Union, no longer to resist the recent decisions at the ballot-box by over whelming majorities of the people of Tennessee. The military authorities are not here to offend or injure the people, but to insure peace to their homes, by repelling invasion and preventing the introduction of the horrors of civil war. Treason