Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-11
From the Wheeling Pres. of Monday. ]
Breckenridge Alive and In VirS inia--Im- =
portRnt Routes--E'osi lions that Should
he Held by Union FOrccg.

Breckenridge Alive and la Virsinia--Im-
portRnt Routes--PositioAst that Should
be Held by Union Forces.
John G. Breckinridge, the ungratcful
and unprincipled political demagcgua,
who so long wore semb lance of Union
ism to disguise his real intentions of
self-aggrandizement by supporting the
rebellion, has recently been very busy
in endeayoring to create Secession SEN
timent and secure Rebel troops. The
Cincinnati papers Of Saturday locate
him on Thursday last in Greenup, the
extreme northeastern county Of Ken
tucky. Now we have it from reliable
authority that within the last two weeks
Breckinridge has travelled more than
two hundred miles by carriage road,
spent three days at one point recruiting,
spoken at several other places, and was,
the middle of last week, at Tazewell C..
H., Tazewell county, Va. The location
where the rumor in the Cincinnati pa
pers "killed" him, is nearly two hun
dred miles from Tazewell, and he could
not have reached "his camp" in the few
hours that interviewed between his speech
at Tazewell and the time when he is ree
ported to have been shot.
The route over which Mr. B. travelled
as above stated, was as follows:
From Owingsville, in Bath county,
(via West Liberty, in Morgan county, }
Ky. At this latter place he made a
speech and rallied some three hundred
recruits. Thence to Piketon, in Pike
county, where he staid three days, ana
thence across the Cumberland noun
tains, at Dogwood Gap, into Virginia,
through Buchanan, Russell, and Taze-
well counties, to Tazewell c, H., where
he remained
On this route there are excellent
turnpikes. There is also a superior
turnpike from Piketon south through
Pike county to the Cumberland Noun
tains, along the base Of the mountains
to Whitesburg in Letcher county, and
eastward through the Pound or Sound
ing Gap into Wise county, Virginia,
thence south to Estellville in Scott
county, and north east to Abingdon,
Washington county, on the Tennessee
and Virginia Railroad-Tazewell aud
Abingdon are also connected by good
turnpikes.
Thus, the whole of Southern and
Western Kentucky, and Of South west
ern Virginia would be controllable by
possession of these gaps, with sufficient
forces to diverge expeditions therefrom
There is also another important route
connecting East Kentucky and East
Tennessee through Cumberland Gap
where the boundaries Of Kentucky
Virginia and Tennessee converge.
Ammunition and provisions can be
and are readily transported over all
these routes. Hence these three gaps
should, by all means, be in the posses
sion Of Union forces.
This accomplished, and the join
movements Of the Rebels of South west
ern Virginia, Eastern Kentucky ant
North eastern Tennessee could be
broken up. Then Reynolds could man.
age the Rebels of Western Virginia, anc
Resecrans could march overSinto Nortl
Carolina and meet an expedition from
! Hatteras Inlet. That would secur,
North Carolina, and materially aid tt
shorten the contest in Virginia, whicl
would break the back bone of the rebel
lion.