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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From southwestern Virginia. (search)
timated that before long fifteen thousand men will be under the command of the gallant Kentuckian. I shall not say whether he intends to effect a union with any other Confederate General; but, if he should desire to do so, it can easily be accomplished. Col. Moore's regiment is now on the march to join Gen. Marshall, who is now in the vicinity of Prestonsburg, but avows his determination to reach the "blue grass country" before many moons. Pork is worth only five dollars, gross, at Prestonsburg, and corn thirty cents a bushel. These articles are still cheaper in the interior. Mail communication, twice a week, by couriers, has just been established between Abingdon and General Marshall's headquarters. The promptness of Judge Reagan, and Mr. Willis Roberts, his agent, in opening so important a route, deserves commendation. Mr. Roberts tells me that he was compelled to leave his home, near Lexington, to escape swallowing the awful mouthful of Lincoln's oath. This gentleman