If correct, the news from
Cumberland Gap is scarcely less important than that from Manassas Late last night it was asserted that news had been received in official quarters to the effect that the
Yankee General Morgan had attempted to cut his way through our lines, and that he was repulsed with great slaughter, after which his entire command, amounting to some ten thousand men, with their arms and equipments, surrendered to our forces under
General E. Kirby Smith.
There is every reason to believe that this statement is correct, as it is well known that
Morgan's position was decidedly precarious; but in view of the many similar reports received from the same quarter it should be taken with much caution.