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The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
eet.the invasion of East Tennessee.&c., &c., &c., Norfolk, Feb. 11. --(Received at 10 o'clock P. M.)--The New York Herald, of the 10th instant, has been received. The Herald says the gun-boats of the Burnside expedition had nine-inch guns, one-hundred-pounder rifled guns, eight-inch shell, and thirty-two-pounders. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial states that General Thomas was about to invade East Tennessee at three different points, simultaneously, and march on to Knoxville, and if successful take possession of the railroad. A letter from the Dominican territory, dated Jan. 13th, says that that Republic is virtually dead, and the island is only a Spanish province. General Santa Anna has ruled as Captain General, in the name of the Queen of Spain. Representatives from Accomac and Northampton counties had arrived at Wheeling, Va. Bennett, in his Herald, says the rascally contractors have pocketed $50,000 of the public funds within the past nine
The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters. (search)
The rumored condition of the interior counties of East Tennessee is not improved by the lapse of time. The people apprehend an immediate advance of the Northmen, and traitors to the South evince their joy in every village and neighborhood. Johnson and Maynard have advised their friends that they would soon return to their homes, and that the "grasp of secessionism should he relaxed." The scouts of the enemy have penetrated, so dame rumor tells us, to Jamestown, within fifty miles of Knoxville. Many of these stories are unfounded, and others, perhaps, exaggerated. Still the actual condition of popular sentiment in East Tennessee is ill understood by Southern statesmen and military chieftains. There is at this juncture a peculiar value attached to the possession of East Tennessee, not only because it gives us a railway connection with Virginia, but its productive hillsides and valleys must furnish vast supplies for our armies during the next year. The enemy are reported 3