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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Letter from Knoxville. (search)
on the rail. As I entered my roos a number of books was observable on the mantle piece. Not having seen anything of the sort for more than a month, I laid violent hands on one, and, to my great surprise, found it to be the "Life and Works of Thomas Cole." Struck with the coincidence of name, I opened the volume hasfily, and made the discovery, that Thomas Cole was an English artist, who came to America in 1819, and obtained some celebrity in his professon. He delighted in visiting the CatskiThomas Cole was an English artist, who came to America in 1819, and obtained some celebrity in his professon. He delighted in visiting the Catskill mountains, and in a letter to a friend, he calls them the "gray-headed mountains." This expression reminds me of the mountains I have passed to-day, and "gray-headed" describes them to a dot. As the cars came slowly along by them, one's thoughts were inevitably turned to the traitors, who had scudded away in their fastnesses, and to the netarious acts of recent vandalism which caused the cars to move so cantiously. The running on the East Tennessee road is confined to day-light and then