The news from
Bragg's army continues of a speculative and uncertain character.
From the
Chattanooga Rebel, of the 26th and 27th, we extract the following items:
The reports which reach us from the region of
Bridgeport are conflicting.
Some assert the crossing of
Rosecrans, while others say that he is engaged rebuilding the main railroad bridge.
The probabilities are, however, that no movement has occurred in that quarter of consequence.
All quiet opposite.
When the armies of
Rosecrans and
Burnside are concentrated, and half a dozen of our Confederate armies, more or less are combined against them, the heaviest battle of the war may be anticipated somewhere between
Bridgeport and
Knoxville.
Much greater confidence is now felt in our ability to meet the invasion.
It is reported that in
Col. Dibrell's late fight at
Sparta with the enemy the notorious cavalry
General Minly was killed.
Rosecrans stopped over-night at the residence of
Mr. Rankin, in
Sequatchie Valley, on last Thursday night.
Parties from Lookout Peak report that some twenty or thirty heavy brass siege pieces have been planted by the enemy in the bend entitling the city.
They can be seen, it is said with a good marine glass.
The Yankee loss was upwards of fifty during the cannonade off Friday.
Persons out from
Nashville say that the Unionists there think of nothing, talk of nothing, and hope for nothing, but the possession of
East Tennessee.
A gentleman who came through the lines recently, from
Nashville, reports that
Andrew Johnson and Person
Brownlow have left that city, announcing their intention to accompany the federal army into
East Tennessee.
A duel took place a few mornings since near
Graysville stertor between a well-known
Tennessee field General and a surgeon of distinction in the army also from
Tennessee.
We have not learned the particulars and withhold the names of the combatants.
The enemy is still activity engaged on the opposite bank of the river.
The of the sappers and miners can be distinctly heard by our pickets in the stillness of the night.
They are as busy as beavers during the night and altogether invisible through the day.
The impression prevails that if a general engagement takes place at all, it will occur, in
upper East Tennessee, between this point and
Knoxville.
Members of the Signal Corps report the enemy's pickets on the
Island opposite
Raccoon mountain, about four miles below the city.
Five companies of Yankee cavalry were seen from the same point moving about on the river flats opposite the mountain yesterday.
The
Knoxville Chronicle says:
‘
We heard from
Kingston, yesterday, to the effect that there were no Federals within forty-five miles of that place.
Our information from various points along the mountain higher up, leads us to doubt whether there is any in the region this side or coming over.
’
We know that the great point of interest, the key of the whole position and the agency of concentrated armies, is to be farther down the river than this.
The hucksters in the Tennessee army, who are robbing soldiers by extortionate charges have been taken in hand by the
Chattanooga authorities.
The
Yankees have started a newspaper in
Franklin, Tenn., called the
. Major T. C. Fitagibbon is the editor.