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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) or search for Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) in all documents.
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The disaster in Kentucky.
We think it wholesome not to underrate a disaster — not to diminish a loss or depreciate a disadvantage.
But we suspect that the news yesterday received from our own friends in East Tennessee is somewhat heightened in its narrative.
The enemy's account, via Norfolk, is not so bad for us as that we have received from East Tennessee.
We trust that the true and reliable report will cut down a little the extent of our defeat.
Nevertheless, there is certainly a defEast Tennessee.
We trust that the true and reliable report will cut down a little the extent of our defeat.
Nevertheless, there is certainly a defeat of our forces and a victory for the enemy, which will elate them wonderfully.
Victories to them are few and far between, and all the more grateful when they do come for their scarcity.
To us, however, this reverse should only be a motive for increased energy and vigilance.
The locality where it happened enhances its bad effects, and should all the more nerve our arms for a powerful effort to retrieve our loss and revenge our countrymen who perished in the ill-fated conflict.
The brave Ge
The Southern connection.
The disaster in Eastern Kentucky and the apprehension it has excited for the safety of our connection with the Southwest through the Virginia and Tennessee, and the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroads — and the possible interruption of our intercourse with the South via the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, by the Burnside Expedition, directs attention to the vital importance of completing the connection between the Richmond and Danville and the North Carolina Central Railroads.
This connection, only some 35 or 40 miles long, might be made in a few weeks.
We have the rails we imagine, or may get enough from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to add to those we have, to finish the line.
It would be a surety against an interruption of a communication with the South and Southwest, which at this time is of vital importance.
We trust that Congress will promptly address itself to the consideration of the matter, and that it may adopt such measures as will effe