Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-10
cenerel Fremont,s pen.rtment,

1t will be seen by reference to any map
of the Unitel States that the department
recently assigned to General Fremont is
a very important part of the territory to
be repOssessed by the Federal forces. 1t
includes all the region between the me-
ridian line drawn through Knoxville,
Tenn, and the lines bounding the opera
tions of the Army of the Potomac. 1t
may, in general terms, be said to be a
field of operations two hundred miles wide
and four hundred miles long. 1t extends
from the Northern part of Western Vir-
ginin 20 the Southern line OF Tennessee
and North Carolina.
This is the Switzerland of the Southern
States. and the people of that mountain
region have, apparently, all the love of
the Swiss for freedom aud their spirit OF
resistance to oppression. Western Vir-
ginia promptly aud boldly refused TO ac-
cept OF the destiny prepared for it by the
Wises, the Tylers, the Letchers aud the
Floyds at Richmond; and the people were
enabled, from their contiguity to Ohio and
Pennsylvania, to make good their resist
aucc to the Southern. olignrChy. An adj
vance will no doubt soon rally NIL the ioyul
elements in Eastern Tennessee and West
ern North Carolina. The loyal men of those
regions, backed by the Union forces. and
equipped with the Union arms, will be able
to laugh at the vain effort of the despots
tho lowlands.
The railroad from Richmond to Knox
vile lies within the Department of the
Mountains. Already the forces of General
Garfield, Thomas and SchoepE are on their
way toward that important line of comtnu-
nicatiOu. General Garfield recently routed
large rebel force ut Pound Gap, on the
border between Letcher county, kentucky,
and Wise county, Tennessee. This point
is about fifty miles from Piketon, the scene
of his former victory over the ponderous
Humphrey Marshall, and is not more than
fifty from Abingdon, Washington county,
Virginia, a station on the railroad one hun
dred and twenty miles east of Knoxville.
Il would be gratifying TO hear of an on
ward movemeut of the forces in the de-
partment of General Fremont. The Occu-
patton of Nashville and the department of
General Buell. have already had a power
ful effect on the young men of Tennessee,
making the war distasteful to them. The
occupation of Knoxville, the rising of the
mountain men, the fiery words of Brown
low, and the proclamation of Andrew
johnson, will be likely to complete what
Buell. has so we'll begun. ., ..,tft,
1t must not be forgotten in our survey OF
thIs new department that it abuts on the
/ Northern part of Alabama and Georgia,
and on the western extremity of South
Carolina, and that these regions have been
the hardest to .coerce into the measures of
the traitors. They win naturally and in
eyitably coalesce with the mountaineers
north of them, and thus the rebellion be
confined 70 that position of the States ly-
ing immediately along the coast OF. the AT
lautic and the Gulf of Mexico. The plan OF
its final suppression begins to. shape itself
as the forces which are designed for that
eud fall into disappointed places.-Phil-
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