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Affairs at Cumberland Gap.
--General Zollicoffer. who commands our forces in East.
Tennessee and the extreme part of Southwestern Virginia, has moved his camp forward from Cumberland Gap, the common point of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, and proceeded with his army some fourteen miles into Kentucky to Cumberland Ferry and Long Mountain Heights.
This advance has been made for strategic reasons, the position now occupied commanding much more effectually all the approaches from Kentucky than Cumberland Gap itself.
It is believed that Gen. Zollicoffer has somewhat upwards of eight thousand troops at the advance posts named.
A report has been in circulation that Andrew Johnson, the notorious traitor of East Tennessee, was on his way through Kentucky, attended by an escort of six thousand Federal troops, in the direction of East Tennessee.
For various reasons, this rumor is discredited.
It is believed that the Confederate force posted at Cumberland Ferry and thereabouts