Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-30
u.udeufs-A New Feature i'm The
War.
We copy the following despatch from Il
Knoxville Register

Knoxville Register
LYsCHBURG, July &c, 1861.
TIE train from Manassas did not arrive
till nine O'Clock tonight. 1t IL certainly
true that we captured thirty-two thousand
bandcufs at the battle of Manassas. with
which the Federalists expected to manacle
Confederate prisoners We have several
pairs of handouts here in Lynchburg.
The Confederate troops occupy Fairfax
Court House. and our lines extend within
two miles of Alexandria.
The Lynchburg VTgiqiaH speaking OF these
handouts says We knew that We were to be
manacled, iguratively speaking, but that
veritable chains had been prepared and were
carried with the grand army" to Manassas
to be put upon the wrists of our gallant de-
tenders, who were to bear them back clank'
ing to Washington, to swell the triumph OF
the Hessians, in Imitation OF the practice oil
the heather conquerers who used 10 drag
their captives in chains, after their chariot
wbeels,-couId hardly have been deemed pos
sible. The conception il so atrocious, so re-
1oltiug to all our ideas OF civilized warfare
that badly az we think of the Internal crew
who have been plotting our degradation and
destruction. We were not prepared for such
unnecessary aud cruel humiliation We
yzouId not bzse believed the report upon any
thing short of the most reliable evidence.
Pat one of the most respectable gentlemen
of this city, just returned from the battle
field. informs u that handouts to the NUM-
her Of THIRTY-IHREE THOUSAND sre now IN
posSessiou of cur forces there, having been
CAPTURED from the enemy Some OF the pris-
oners affirm that there being mutiny in their
srmy. these handouts were designed for their
own soldiers; but nobody believes them Ii
their army had been affected by mutt
mons suifit. their morale is very different IRON
what heir leaders have proclaimed, in that
Toasted unity of purpose which, it has been
pretended, has inspired them as with one
mind and one heart. Mo- this was not the
purpose; but the object was to make their tri-
umph Sc great, and our humiliation as posi-
bic. They intended to strike terror into the
hearts of the Southern people, and by this
means facilitate the suppression Of the ire
beIIion.D But they have mistaken the tenn
per aud spirit of our people, and this devel-
oument of their purpose will effect our brave
troops everywhere, as it has done at MaDas--
sas: it will make them more furious and in
duce them to fight with DESPERATE energy to
the last. aFor who would be towards
sIaye!'' to be borne manacled and in chains
to the presence of the vulgar despot at Wash
iugton; a second Attila in brutality without
the courage of the fierce Hun. Wherever
this preparation of Scott and Lincoln shall
be known-and We trust it will go abroad
everywhere-the passions of our people will
be iniamed to d point that will demand
swift vengeance to be executed upon the
heads of the wretches who could conceive
such punishment for brave men, guilty OF
no other offence than that of fighting for their
liberties, their homes, and their honor. May
Gcd smite these men with ''some bolt red
uncommon wrath" for their crimes against
virtue and humanity.