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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrest of a Federal officer. (search)
Arrest of the Brownlows
--A telegraphic dispatch, published on the Gazette a few days since, stated that W. G. Brownlow and his son had been arrested at Knoxville by order of Gen. Zollicoffer.
On the same day one of our citizens telegraphed to Knoxville, making inquiry: "For what was Brownlow and son arrested" We saw the answer as sent by telegraphic and it was "For circulating Helper's Book." This is the extend of our knowledge in regard to the matter.--Nashville Gazette.
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great Railroad accident in England . (search)
From Kentucky. Louisville, Sept. 17.
--Gen. Zollicoffer is fourteen miles in Kentucky, and is strongly posted at Cumberland Ferry and the Long Mountain.
Huston's bill has again been postponed.
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
The Victor in Kentucky.
--The affair at Barboursville, Kentucky, (not Muldrungh's hill, as improperly reported on yesterday) was quite a brilliant victory to the gallant Tennesseeans. We have been kindly shown the dispatch received here by a highly esteemed clergyman, and to which allusion was made in yesterday's Dispatch. It states that the Confederate forces numbering eight hundred, under the command of Gen. Zollicoffer, had attacked eighteen hundred Federal troops, at Barboursville, in Eastern Kentucky, about forty miles from the Tennessee, and thirty miles from the Virginia lines, and completely routed them, taking four hundred stands of arms and equipments.
The loss on the side of the Confederates was only two men killed.
The enemy's loss was not reported.
The dispatch above referred to came from Nashville, where the writer holds a high position in the department of the Quartermaster for the Confederate forces of Tennessee.
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