Confederate guerillas Hovering around Nashville.
--A telegram to the
Rebel, dated
Decatur, the 18th inst., gives the following account of the performances of the
Confederate "guerillas," as the
Yankees call our detached cavalry, in the neighborhood of
Nashville:
Hawkins's scouts have captured another sutlers' train on the
Murfreesboro' pike, and, instead of falling back, allowed the pursuing party to pass them, and then made a dash into South Nashville, driving the pickets and bringing off captures in safety.
The
Yankees attacked
Hawkins and his men while firing a bridge on the
Northwestern Railroad, but the bridge was burned,
Hawkins losing but three men.
Stokes's cavalry and
Peters's East Tennessee cavalry are in
Hickman county, swearing terrible vengeance on
Hawkins, of
Wheeler's mounted scouts.
He attacked the armed negroes on the
Northwestern road, killing thirteen, and wounding a number.
Hawkins's men ambushed the command searching for him, but an accidental shot sprung the ambush and provoked an uneven fight, in which
Hawkins lost two men killed and eight prisoners. He is recruiting rapidly and has been joined by
Jack Hinton.
Capt. Ray, of
Hawgins's scouts, and
Jack Thompson, the guerilla, both Kentuckian, had a fray, in which the latter was killed.
Hawkine has had three spice and Union informers tried and executed.
The
Yankees in a raid after him caught
J. O. Griffith.