Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-05
Il tennessee ssExiIe.s,, yie,r OF the
Campaign in Kentucky, and OF
Gen. Nelson.

Gen. Nelson.
The following letter 10 the Gincinna
ii Commercial, gives view of Gen. Nell
sons operations much less rose coloied
than the halo with which they have been
invested by Yankee letter writer's gen
orally:
CAMP CALVERT, LONDON, KY
November Is.
blaze in the Tennessee camp, lighted BY
news from home; every heart is on fire,
and barns for vengeance on the hell born
horde of Secessionists. Earnestly, aux
ious1y and impatiently, the question is
asked by old grey haired men, and strip
ling, beardless boys, and by strong men
in the full vigor of life "Are we to stBv
here always-must we forever STAY and
guard Kentucky: viii we never be al
lowed togo back So East Tennessee, to
our homes, and our destitute, unprotected
familiesi" God grant that the dav nav
not be far distant, for we are al tired
and weary, and sick Of the everlasting
cry that We are not ready, wait little
longer. Yes, watch aud pray, and wait.
to what purpose? For the Secession sol
diers to deyastate cur fields, slaughter
our live stock-that ought now to be
feeding Union aFmy-burn our houses.
insult our wives and daughters, and ruin
them forever-and all time What,
wait for discipline. wait to be drilled
with that eternal internal left, that has
been cried until every old breed SOW In
Kentucky Is grHntine left. How can II
ever he expected that men, smarting IN
.ter every insult and injury that can be
heaped upon them, can quietly submit
and ieQTa to be disciplined and drilled
Wait! Why--iust because some one, or
two, or three men, no better than many
other men, who happen TO have Briga-
dier-General hitched to their names, and
consequently get big pay, declare that
We have not the necessary equipage, or
means of transportation OF perhaps
some little brooks on the roads are
swelled by the recent rains Some
Of these men are getting more money
now, as Generals, than they ever saw
before, and they are afraid lest this war
Be ended too soon, and the stream that
IS now flowing so plenteously into their
pockets will be cut off. This is alto
gether too much of politicians or CON
benefit, IL smells very strong that way,
when we have right under our nose the
immense sWindling beef and mule con
tracts given to the big bellied blue grass
aristocracy of Kentucky, who have sent
no volunteers to fight out the battle for
the Union. Why do we wait for these
wise and august Brigadier Generals to
get everything fixed to their notion, and |
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tactics? The thing is absurd, more IN
Gus country of East Tennessee, where an
army of ten thousand men could not be |
so stationed as to be all in sight of each |
other, it is utterly impracticable.
How have the Tennesseans been treat !
ed since their exodus from their native |
State in the month of august, to the |
hospitable @ State of Kentucky: What |
has become of the 100000 appropriated
Congress for the benefit of East Ten
nessee? Where are the arms purchased |
by the Government and sent to Kentucky
to arm East Tennesseans? Let those
ponder well who know, and remember |
that there is great reckoning day, when
they will be arraigned before a Judge |
with whom money and political influence
sill not avail. In August, the Tennessee
ans came to Barboursvflle and were
into service by Samuel p.
Nelson, then Lieutenant Nelson, of the |
Navy, now acting Brigadier General,
who was appointed by the President TO
muster into service and take charge of
them. At that time, there were boxes
almost without number-Of arms at Gin
,innati, addressed to the Tennesseans;
to use the expression of a newspaper re-
porter talked with to-day, the depot
was crowded with them, and among them
we're some 1000 or 500 Sharpe rifes-1
These arms were forwarded through the
,xertions of Andy johnson and Horace
MAYNARD, but not with them alone rests
he praise. VIM. B. Carter, who IS well
known in many of the Northern cities
or his untiring efforts TO enlist the SYM
,athies of the masses with his native
East Tennesseans, was equally untirlng
N trying to wake up the tardy Govern
nent to a sense of the Importance OF
.rming East Tennesseans; and his broth
#, Jas. d. Carter, now Colonel OF the
second Regiment, procured the Sharpe
.ifies, which were sent on through his
,wn influence, and paid partly for them
tut of his own pocket.
Samuel Carter went to Gen. Nelson, then
and trying to form an en-
,ampment at Dick Robinson's, 10 see |
about the arms. Gen. Nelson gave his /
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