Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-05


| weary; ragged, homeless exiles; and yet
! among those ragged, homeless exiles were
| Preachers Of the Gospel, County Clerks,
Judges, members of the Legislature, ana
members of Congress, and material enough
/ among those who held no Office out of
| which two hundred Brigadier Generals
| could haSe been made with more sense
| and brains than Nelson had The arms
Government purchased and forwarded
expressly Ter Tennesseans thew never
got. The Sharpe rifles, bought through
the exertions of Col. Carter, were given
to Col. Woolford's Cavalry, and cut of the
twelve hundred of them carried by these
Keatuckians, not one Of them was ever
harmed by being shot ell It a SeceSsiouizt
until Tie Nild est fight, and not even then
.sut4id these f.3es have sn.eit powder If j.
had not 4sCu !1T tho IEdjsnianS. for Wool
fcr.i men ,;arica to retreat. hut Inc Ss;rd
-'3i,oT- sighting AiiUlant rather beomci
then in sn5 oil Klutuck hal 10 face The
nlllsi~ hal w,u.l old Daniel Goaue ,ay
= he knew what unworthy Representatives
ne had LETT behind aim. IL strikes mc that
Il anv nan rest uneasy ~ his grave, Daniel
Bcoue mu-t and If there Is aBy such thing
Is spirits ever returntn" to this wiCkUd
world, some Of the blue grass aristocraCy
=
Daniel pcrchcd uu their bedposts looking
down upon them III silent contempt 0ns
word foF Nelsoa-Blieali-r General Nelson
before leave him: and II he ever sees il
nc can put :; il his pipe and smoke ii, hat
the day he Ette placed among Tennessee
troops IN "a haitie, wi.l he a lark isy Fer
him.
AL The other arms sent f1r cur benefit
Vanished somewhere, and that somewhere Is
very strongly euspcCted Ia lc among LAe
Kentucky volunteers. Vt any rate here i
the bare fact, and fIrts are hard things 10
climb over IL IN argument that some two
hundred men AZ this day IN The 2nd East
Tennessee regiment, are without arms;
there are no Guns IL give them, and sc gre
now drawing near tbs Tennessee iinc, aud
recruits are coming il from one TO forty
every day. And what guns We have arc The
old Harpers Ferry muskst Of lS49. Can
there he 10 way fixed t. supply us plentiful
iy with even these? A. to camp equipage,
the md regiment is only partially supplied
two u three lncsses cooking and eating out
of the same pots and rans, by turns No
canteens, 10 tents for surgeons, nc hospital
trunk for oUU sick; though through The
kind fundamentally ef Mrs Nellie Terry
Of Cleveland, IL sending supplies from the
Soldiers Aid society III that city, or sick |
Only about half OF our officers are sup
Piled will wall tents, aud there arc no more |
tents here to cover the recruits that are ex |
pectCd to arrive every day. And why Is il? |
why. simply because all the Post Quarter |
masters are Kentuckisns, gnd they DO not |
not care whether the Tcuuessccans AavG !
anything CT pot: they arc too busy feather |
in@ their own nests to trouble themselves |
about H., And yet, for all this---for all the |
sights, injuries and insults heaped upon Us, |
you hear not ; uurrnur hom these Aoblc |
Tennssscesns: at all the unnecessary incon- |
7euence one grImbles. Their only cry |
ia--Lef ,,5 m ho7;c They we're tolled here |
last \ eIust with the promise vf getting arms |
and going back home. With this object still |
in view, they werG sworn III for three years. |
Then they were put under some .uIau with /
BrigadiCr General tackled 10 his name. who |
zneY nothing about East Tennessee and |
cared ies5-and here We are.
Give u5 arms, give us ammunition. and |
here i not q TennesSeean IL this camp who
: not ready and willing and anxious to go
pacl,, and not one that has not confidence
II o,Jr ability to sustain ourselves when we
ire back Yet here we sit idle, and are set
IN fire nearly every day, by some fresh ar
'ival from Tennessee, with accounts Of fresh
-aYayes committed, by the inf rnal Seces-
sAoA 'A1S III w Civ |
We VIII engage TO clean them out of the
and support ourselves while ii
5 being done
Esquire Maupin came in last night from
county, and brings very au-
.hentic information of Zollicoffer's forces.
He has some eight regiments at and about
cumberland Gap. They are blockading
III the roads through all the other gaps,
md we, of course, must wait until he
.ets everything fixed to suit himself, and
get fully prepared for our coming, before
4 move is made against him. Maupin
SAYS, and all other information confirms
Il, that if this column had kept on and
Zollicofer up as he retreated, we
could now have been at Knoxville as we'll |
as here. The Secession forces were very
much scattered and badly scared. They |
had got fixed for running, and taking it
for granted that the Union army was fol-
lowing them, they did not intend to stop. |
There has been no force come down to |
Zollicofer from Virginia as yet, to the /
best of our knowledge, and two of the |
regiments known to have been in the |
Wild Cat fight are non est inUelltHs-sup |
posed TO have been mostly killed and |
and what was left filed mp the |
gaps in other regiments.
Yours, EAST TENNESSEE
TIE BLACK FLAG.-W When we reflect up |!