Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-05

snsrsls 70 oct everything fixed to their notion, and
then fght a battle according to military taeucs
The thing is absurd, more in such country 80
this or the mountainous country OF Esst Iennessse
vhere an army of ten thousand men could not be
40 stationed as to be all in sight OF eaen otner
utterly Impracheable.
How have theI Tennesaeans been treated SINCE =
their exodus from their native State IN Ine monIn
What hes became of the 600 appropriated Oy
Congress- for the benefit of East Tennessee! Whers
are The arms purchased by the Government ana
sent to Kentucky to arm East 1enhesssAHs -
those ponder well who know, ana remember II n
thsre "a great reckoning day, when they VIII DC
orrsioDed before a Judge with whom money anu
political influence will not avail In Augus., Iuo
frennesseans came to BArboursville and we're mus
tered into Sc rVice by Samuel P Nelson then Lien
tenant Nelson, of the Navy, now aeung Ssieaoit
G.nersI ygho was appointed by the President to
mnster into service and take charge OF them.
At that time there were boxes almost ~lnUuS
number-of arms at Cincinnati, addressed 10 the
Teupesseans; TO use the expression OF newspaper
reporter / talked with 10 Gay; me uePo' "s |
crowded with them and among them were soIne
| | coo or 1900 Sharpe rifles. These arms were
! forwarded through the exertions OF Anay O0nn-
son and Horace Maynard, but not Wltu tne aM
alone rests the praise. Wm b. carter, VIM 70 "e
lnown in many of the Northern cities Tor MS IN
tying efforts to enlist the sympathies OF the masses
with his native East TennessesDs, was equally uh-
firing in irving TO wake up the taroy UGVe[bneH'
to a sense of the Importance OF Srmlng E4sI 1en-
nesseans; aud his brother, James b. Oarter NJ"
! Colonel of the Second Regiment, procured tne
| Sbarne rifles which were sent on through ms own
influence, and paid partly for them out CT his own
pocket. 49,, .bo, oor,,
manding and irving to form an encampmsnt 81 LICK
| Eobirson's IN sec about the arms. General Nelson
oave his word to him that the arms shoulo De lor,
| warded to the Tennesseans at BarpoursVlne' aEu
Carter returned to that place Inc arms were H IoI
warded accordingly, from Clnclnnau 10 yen WI
con Who when he had taken them into hls posses
| sio1 refnsed to send any Of them away from Inc
c1mn. and the Tennesseans were reluctantly Gems
pelled to march, get to Nelson's headquarters
The best way they could, at what afterWSrGS pc
.c.r,a notorious as Camp Dick Robinson Noto>
;o.,s indesd and alas most memorable place
10 MS II was, as it were, charnel mouse lor our
men. and many brave heart, that might have kill
ed Secessionists during the war ana erJoyeo
years Of comfort at home AFTER tne mAr,
had il remained in its native hills, now lies buried
in the dirt with no slab or board to mark the spot
killed by the accursed malaria at DICK g.
And how did Gen Nelson fulfill his promise OF CIV
ing arms to our men. when they came 10 MS very
door to get thsmi Did he extend the hand OF snec-
tionate welcome to them? No. he cast COX Oh WIFI
sring nitv Upon the crowd of poor, weary, ragged
homsless exiles and yet among those ragged
thomeless exiles were Preachers OF the Gospel
Comfy Clerks Judges, members of the Legislator e.
t and members Of Congress, aEd material enough
hundred Bripadier Generals could have been mace
Nth moro aonse and brains than Nelson had. Inc
arms Government purchased ana 1orWEoeu eA'
pressly for Tennessesns they never got Inc Sharps
: rides, bought through the exsrtions OF Col.
&c., veye Given to Col. WOolford's Cav
alry, and out Of the twelve hundred OF them car
ried by these Kentuckans not one Of them was ever
harmed by being shot of at Secssslonlst until Ihe
Wild Cat fight, and not even then Woula tness TliA
have smet powder if it had not been for the Indl-
.nisnH for WoolfOrd's men started to retreat out
the ssrd tigers" fighting Adjutant ather hemmed
v them in and old Kentuck had to face the music
What would old Daniel Boone ssy If he knew what
= unworthy representatives he had left behind MIN
7. .trikeS me that if any man rest uneasy In his
- grave Daniel Boone must; AID If there Is any such
tbn "a sDirts ever returning to this wicked world
70 some of the blue grass srstocracy viii awake IRON
q uneasy slumberE TO see cid Daniel Boone perchec
It on their bedposts looking down upon them In sllen
contemnt One word for -Brigadier-Gen'
Is eyaI Nelson-tefore leave him and if he eval
,ees il he can put it in his pipe AID smoke It, tina
the day he gets placed among Tennessee troops in
'r battle will be dark day for him
All the other arms sent for our dement, vanished
Be .ome where snd that somewhere IL very strong.
,n1nected 70 be among the Kentucky volunteers
rate here is the bare fact and facts are hsf
70 things to climb over in an argument thAt some ."
ed hundred men IS this day IN the I'd East tennessee
he -Sainoent are without arms, there ara no gucs
give them, and We are now drawing near the zen
oe,See line, and recruits are coming IN iror
a. one to forty every day. And what guns We nav S
or are the old Harpers Ferry mu'Aes oI !oiO. 20
"A there be no way fixed TO supply US pienHiuly VII
even thsFes As to camp eQuipage. the "a regimen
ia only partially supplied, two or three messe
1. cooking and eating out Of the same poA ana pam
% nv turns. No cAnteens, no tenn 1or surgeons
bo,nitaI trunk for our sick; though, through ID
[i.d n.trumeutality of Mrs Nellie Terry Of Clev'
eu Land in sending supplies from the Soldiers Aid 81
cety in that city, sick have been rendered con
- Portable. ,:, =.
u vail tents and there are no more tents here
on cover the recruits that are expected to arr'
avery day. And why is it, Why. simply becaui
les all the Post QuArteFmSsteFS are hentucKlans al
, tbov do not care whether the Tennssseans hay
anything or not they are 700 Ou.y
vet for all this-for all the sights injuries and II
cal .rlts heaped upon U.s. you hear not murmur fTO
e. these noble Tennessesns; at al the unnecessai
inconvenience no one grunblea. Their only CRY
,l-Letvs 90 hO1neI They were teued here laat
Ano mat With the promise of getting arms and gol
lback home. With this object still in view, the
4po were sworn in for three years. urea they we
mt under some man with Brigadier General tsc
Ae' cd tn his name who knew nothing ABOUT E2sE lie
ne,see and cared less-snd here We are.
eve ms arIns! give US ammunition! and the
ia not A Tennessean in this camp who Is not read
and willing, and anxious to go BACK, ana not
neu that has not confidence il our ability TO sustain OF
selves when we are back. Yet here we SIT Id
snd eve act ON IRE nearly every day by some FIRE
Sru arrival from Tennessee, with accounts OF tr'
1sen .Iss.s committed by the Internal secession ga
that Only let US among them, and we Will engage
clean them out of the mountains and support o
selves while it il being done.
t Of Esquire Maupn came III last night from 5an
dge bell county ana orngS very
dVo- st and about Cumberland Gap. They are bloc
ding all the roads through all the other gaps,
We Of course must wait until he gets everyth
fixed to suit himself, and get fully prepared Tor
coming. before move ia made against him.
we NsuDin says and all other information comm
a b Il that II this column had kept on and follo'
M, ZoIIiconor up a. he retreated, we could now
';nn. hsen At Knoxville a. vel! as here. The Seces'
the forces were very IhuoH 'CHI.e - selling II
trip They had got n1eI Lof -. SoIIovir9 IN
must shey did not intend to stop. There had peer
Te force come down to 'Zollicofer from Virgins
= OF 70 the beat Of our knowledge. and two OF