Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-03
NORTHERN NEWS AND LIES.
News from East renneasco by way of Cin-
ctnustf.
Yrca ne Cincinnati coansreiAl Nov q.

News frcEs EHBt TenneGBeS by way OF Ctns
yrca he Cincinnati Commercial Nov %.
We have very late and Trustworthy information
direct from East Ten1esssee and Indirectly from
other portions Of the South. We shall not partic-
ularize the channels through which this informa
ton is received, but give our word that We know
them to be worthy the most absolute confidence.
The Union.men Of East Tennessee were never
more loyal and hopeful than now. They stand
dauntless and incOrruptabls, and if there ia any
change they are, becoming more ardent and conf
dent the good and great cause, of national unity
and free government which they regard as one and
inseparable, now and forever. The Secessionists
whisper that their attempted revolution must end
In failure s- 3.Te - - --s
1t is true as rumored for few days, that there
sre camps Of Union men in Tennessee, twelve hun
! dreo in one and seven hundred in another, each
man with his rife and pound Of powder and R cor
I responding quantity Of balls, and regarding his
powder as far more precious than gold. In the late
bridge burning three important bridges in Tennes
see andtwo in Georgia. we're entirely destroyed
\ and two or three others greatly damaged. The
roads were in bad order before the bridges were
burned, and the rolling stock is bad condition IL
will be impossible for the road to be far repaired
IS to permit the passage of trans in less than q
month. The loyal Est Tennessean ans were hourly
Respecting Federal army to force its way through
| Cumberland Gap, and if vigorous advance had
been made there, the capture Of ZIllicOfer's army
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could ave escaped. Z0llcoffer's effective force
| in Kentucky has not at any time exceeded seven
| thousand men, and he cannot now muster six thou
sand. The number of secesh troops guarding the
kast Tennessee railroad when the bridges were
burned was less than eight hundred.
If after the battle Of Wildcat our troops had
pushed vigorously forward, the loyal East Tennes>
scans would have taken possession of the rairoad;
and held it for their use instead of destroying
| it, and they would have taken large amount of
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vile and other points for the of the rebel army
The falling back OF the Cumberland Gap Expedition
will have most distressing effect and will proba>
! oily csuse tine ruin of many Of those who have
committed themselves in arms against the JEFF
| Davis despOtism. At the very time when the de-
voted UniOnists expecting to see the bayonets
of the United States troops gittsring in the Tases
/ of their mountains, they will hear of the dIsas-
! trous march away from them, which has ali eady
been described at length in these columns.
! The sturdy loyalty Of the East Tennesseans ap.
pears in the returns of the recent Confederate cleo
ton for President and Vice President and members
OF Congress. In ROane county, where two thou
sand votes usually given, less than three hun
/ dred and fifty were polied John Baxter, Sub
mission Union man, (thst Is one who in favor Of
the Union, butlOoks upoR'the rebellion es an accom-
plished fact) run for the Confederate Congress in
| 4aynsrds district, thinking that the Unionists
would support and elect him, rather than permit
! the election Of IN ultra Seeessionst. The Union
trICt, but refused TO vote, and the SecessiOnsts
] had a very small, but nearly unanimous vote. In
Knox county where the u n men had three thou
sand two hundred votes Baxter, the SUbmissiOnist,
received but eighty votes. The Union men would
have nothing TO do with the election but treated il
| with contempt. In many places the polls were not
opened, and in some whole counties not vote was
cast.
! The lines between the Union men and the Secesh
are very sharply drawn. Every man knows whom
/ he fru nd vybo he a.
VotiOn Of the Union people to the Government is IN
alterable and many touching proofs Of it given
We are told Of men more than seventy years Of age
acting guides the mountains at night for those
whom they knew 10 be friends Of the Government.
| The women will not take mOley for any assistance
they may render the UniOn men Cases are men
| toned in which poor women whose husbands are
exlles, have, with tears in their eyes, refused to
touch geld offered and urged upon them for proTis-
ions furnished thCze who were labOrng in the cause
OF the Union One lady who was reused at mid
night to prepare meal fer party OF Union men
was told, in order 20 induce her to accept 4 gold
piece compensation for her trouble, that the
gold was not from their own pockets but from the
tea y of the United States. She burst into tears
and refused TO accept it more earnestly than ever
saying she could not take the money of the Govern
ment for any poor service she could render. This
poor womsn's husband and sons were eXlies. Are
these people to be abandoned to their enemies now
| in the hour of their utmost need?
There is undoubtedly 3 powerful reaction in
/ North Carolina against the disunonistE. Il would
not be surprising to hear at any time of most de
| termined Union movement IN that quarter. The
| UhiOn men Of North Carolns and North Als5ams
are in communication with these OF Eat Tennes
see.
Very few troops were sent to Virginia during the
autumn months. The last detachment that went
forward over the Tennessee railroad was body
Of eight hundred GeorgiaDs, who had been without
arms so long that they threatened to dsband. when
they were ordered 10 Richmond, and started aboai
three weeks ago in wretched condition and without
arms Of any sort