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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Troubles in East Tennessee (search)
The Troubles in East Tennessee
--North Carolina Invaded.--The Asheville (N. C.) News, of the 7th inst., says:
A terrible state of affairs exists in the border counties of Tennessee.
A fight occurred last week at Parrottsville, Cooke county, about fifty miles from this place, in which Captain Gorman and two privates of the Confederate cavalry were killed.
A messenger reached this place day before yesterday from the commanding officer at Greenville, Tenn., urgently requesting that a force be immediately dispatched to the adjoining county of Madison to intercept some two or three hundred Tennessee and North Carolina tories who had fled before the Southern troops and taken refuge in the mountains of Madison county
A bout one thousand tories, the messenger informed us, were at Newport, in Cooke county, armed and organized.
Col. R B. Vance's regiment had been ordered to disperse them, and would, it was supposed, reach Newport last Tuesday.
Nothing definite has been hear