New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-14
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL II, 1862.
The following letter FROM Tennessee to the Mo-
bile Tribune, though written previous to the battle
will be found to be very interesting:

The following letter froIn Tennessee to the Mo-
bile Tribune, though written previous to the battle,
will be found to be very interesting:
NEAR PJL4sssr, TEss., April1, 1t52 e.
Editor of Mobile Ir6bane--I sent you letter
recently from Athens, Alabama, about thirty mils8
south OF my present locality Taking it horseback,
left there on Thursday morning making my way
up to Tennessee -" following the openings of
Providence" as Peter Cartwright used TO say. At
the Elk river were three of Scott's cavalry
up. They hinted that before got back ,hey would
sink the ferry boat. Bat knew my horse could
swim, fI couldn't. From EIkton, little village in
Giles county, Tennessee, aud situated at this
is good turnpike. Like all Tennessee turnpikes,
at this time, the gates thrown open and travel
is free. Distance, fifteen miles.
Iput up with an old friend early on Thursday
evening, whose house, though he lives off tie pike
a mile, has not been without soldier for any
night in six weeks. They CALL sick, and his wife
and daughters nurse them until they get well, and
are fea x, til they almost get sick His daughter
was married to gallant SoutIerner, and next
morning the Captain left with his company for
Fort Donelson, where, after brave fight, he was
taken prisoner. He could have got of alone, but
would not desert his men. His servant did get Of,
and came home. i saw him, ploughiog, and a
mighty wonderful account Cuffee gives of the
battle. s
Next morning, about ten miles from Pulaski, /
met two of SCOTS Cavalry on the pike. They in.
formed me that, on the night before, three hundred
and two of Lincoln's cavalry encamped in the Fair
Ground at Pulaski. just a mile ahead was a road
turning off to the right, leading not indirectly to the
point was making for, and leaving Pulaski to the
left. You may guess, Mr.. Editor, that ] took tbed
right road and gave the " three hundred aud asl6
wide berth. People along the pike wers
were five hundred, a thousand-an advances ~ ~
large force that would not stop short Of Elk river
ETC., etc. They told me that several families had
gone out during the night, making their way down
towards the more saubrious cline OF Alabama. NJ
About 4 O'Clock that day made my point, ac-
complshed my business as far as the absence of a
friend whom expected to find, but did not find,
would allow, and turned back. / was alone going,
but there was no lack Of company returning;
mostly soldiers whose furloughs had expired, get:
ting back to the Southern army. Some of them had
slept in the same house, a few nights before. with
Lincoln officers, OF course unknown and in citizens
dress. They represented the Lincoln cavalry as
inferior to ours in every respect-in horses and in
horsemanslip; armed with sabres, but without the
double barrel shot gun which our men carry, and
which they think altogether preferable.
The "three hundred and twon left Pulaski Fri
day morning and came mile south Of it, They
were shy and timid, and took mp nobody, because
says farmer, they were 'fraid they mought be
tuck up theirselves.n They behaved as those do
looking around. Now that they are on the back
track 1t is the general opinion that fifty men with
shots guns could have killed and made prisoners
OF the Wn0le hatcn. Iney Wenb Dack IN cOnslQer-
able Of hurry driving along some horses that had
broken down. This and similar movements of the
enemy have auggested the organization of guer-
rilla bands. and the idea is quite popular and tue
thing is in motion.
The Linconites asked only two questions in
Are any Of Scott's cavalry in the neghborhood?''
Of Scost's cavalry they are in great dread. Sew
eral dashing. things attributed to Morgans squad
ron were done by Scotts cavalry. They are
l t,On
would be much more efficient. The question is
often asked, why the two cavalry companies
formed here in Giles county are not ordered to dc
I this scoutipg7 They know every hill and hollow
| and could enlist their neighbors in helpful acts.
Since the guerrilla movement has taken shape
Il the continuance of Yankees amiability in Ten
eI nessee is doubted. As long as the citizens sci
p them food debate the Constitution, and let then
u cation, why the Yankees will be very agreeable
y But when they begin to be taken off mysteriousy
and every sentinel, scout and straggler from the
II main army forfets his life, then the invaders viii
Il be likely to lose their temper. In expectation OF
this citizens and soldiers who had left their families
b behind, are now bringing them away. The sooner
Of this entente cordiale between Tennessee people
and their invaders is disturbed the better. It is
sv and must be more or less demoralizng. Ev
2, dences of this have startled me. Why said
lone who is very sensitive on his large property in
terest, they are polite and respectful as they
4 can be-more SO than own soldiers" | saw
man from Nashville last week, who firmly believed
n that Island No. 10 had been taken. There is nc
| doubt that many people in Tennessee, once tine
| friends of the Southern Confederacy, and even
| now swearing they are Southern, are calculating
| how we can get along under Northern rules, ant
are thinking that things will not be so bad aftel
| all, even if we are overcome Some of these very
people, now kindly treated and honied by the
Yankees: will, when their power is fully estab
lished, be arraigned for high treason and hung
and their estate confscated and their children
made beggars. Not all Tennesseeans are thu
| cajoled, Mr.. Editor but some of them are
Thousands of her sons do not, and will not enter
tain even the possibility of subjugaton. They arr
not deceived by this fair show-they know Yam
kees too well.
A gentleman just escaped from the neighbor
hood of Franklin tells me that Lincolnite soldie
came to his farm one day for straw for their hos
pitals-which, by the way, are not empty Th
fellow belonged to an Illinois regiment. and hal
boated to New Orleans. He frankly stated that
had he been there at the opening Of the war, h
would have Joined the Southern army. Well
myself,' was his reply, "and mine il the case Q
thousands; am in the army because it is my onl.
chance of making a living. ! have wife andfou
children. All business is stopped--it is this o
nothing" Others profess to be fighting for tn
navigation of the Mississippi river; others for tn
boundary line; others for making us pay the wa
debt but most, for the /" stars and stripes" The
call US ' secesh," but wish to be called Unlo
men or Federals-to be called Lincolnite, Yankee
or Abolitionist is an offence and an insult.
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