The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-22
Athens, Friday, August a2. 1889.
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ting things through in the fastest ant
most approved style. The Federal officer
are said to be very much disguised with
his manner Of doing business, and some
Of them even threaten to resign and &c
home unless he is estopped. A running
account Of the gallant Col.'s last expedi
ton will be found elsewhere in our paper
The gallant commander Of the Sd Ten,
nessee, Col. Vaughn, recently had an in
terview with some of the East Tennessee
renegades, now in the Federal army
among them Bob. Byrd and Jim Shelley
OF Roane county, both ranking as Co
lonels. Byrd, Col. Vaughn thinks, il
sick of his position, but Shelley is as big
fool as ever and insists that Lincoln /.
right Jim Brownlow 10 Lieut.. Colonel
Of Bob Johnson's regiment Of renegsdes
There's spectacle for you-or rather, q
pair of them. Dan Trewiit is aid to Brig
General Speers, formerly of Bledsoe coun.
ty. Trewitt used to be an sstute lawyer
and gifted speaker. while Speers was
never more than a fourth rate county
court pettifogger. But in Lincolndom, as
everywhere else, the bigger fool the bet.
ter luck. Mitch Edwards is over there
trying to raise regiment Of mounted
men. But it don't make much difference
where Mitch is, he'll Fever set the river
on FIRE, not even Tar river. nor do any
thing else calculated TO sartle nature and
alarm the world Col. Vaughn mentions
the names OF several others formerly cit..
sens Of East Tennessee who are now in
Abe's service and sporting the Federal
uniform.
The Regi,,er also contains an account. of
chunk Of fight in Scott county, on
the 18th, between Nick's command of
Georgia Partisan Rangers and a Federal
force under old man Cliff. The Federals
were encamped on mountain, up which
the Georgians charged, routing the enc
my and capturing his works, one hum
dred head Of horses, ammunition. com.
missary stores, arms, &c. The enemy left
eight dead bodies on the field. Loss of
partisans, one wounded.
From lower East Tennessee we have
nothing Of special importance. If there
is any thing going on in that direction,
the public will no doubt find it out in
good time.
Several returned soldiers from Missis.
sippi represent the sickness in. our army
as heavy. The wisdom and efficiency of
the powersthat beisstrikinely manitestin
one or two things, Last winter they sent
numbers Of the brave sons Of the sunny
South to battle with the rigors and frosts
OF the higher ATTITUDES, and now, while
the dog-star RACES and the heavens glow
with fervent heat, they keep the noun.
tain boys among the bayous and lagoons
OF the Mississippi, where the miasmatic
vapors and death-infusing malaris soon
dispose of them. But military command.
ers are not expected, like editors and ar.
my corresponSehtt, to know every thing.
While on the subject Of sickness, there
are complaints in some of the Southern
papers in regard to the hospitals of East
Tennessee. II is said that there ia want
Of suitable provisions and delicacies for
the sick, and that the ladies never visit
them. We can't say in regard to the
military hospitals, but whenever any sick
aud wounded are left at this place they
receive prompt and kind attention, and
no day passes without witnessing more or
less ladies at the depot to minister to such
as may be on the passing trains. We are
informed the same attentions are shown
at nearly every station on the line.
There is another matter we will here
digress little to notice. The army cor.
respondents of the journals South Of us,
almost invariably speak of East Tenhes.
zee as thoogh it was nothing but nest
OF tories. We beg to dissent from any
such slsnderous conclusion. We know
very we'll there is a heavy tory element in
souoe portions Of Fest Tennessee. but
Il contains plenty of as good loyal men as
can be found in South Carolina, Georgia,
or any part of the Confederacy better,
because they have had to contend from
the start against both wind and tide.
against popular sentiment and the inefi:
cheney and unwise policy Of those sent
here TO re-mould and control it, Any
weakling may manage TO swim WITH the
current. but it requires effort, moral naus,
ole and manhood to breast il successfully.
Another complaint is. that East Tenhes.
see has not sent as many troops to the
Geld ss it should have done. That may
DO true, out 1t has sent large number.
I've don't now reoollect how many,l and
would have sent as many more il there
mad oeen any assurance that they would
be armed and put in active service. Ano-
Their consideration East Tennessee is the
granary and the meat house of the Con-
fsdsracy--the war cannot be carried on
without its productions. Its teeming hills
and fertile valleys are cultivated msinly
by white labor--taks this entirely into the
srmy. and bow about bread and meatl---
II 10 grave mistake about East Tennss.
see. We have no apology TO make for
the tory lsaders--they deserve 10 be
damned to everlasting infamy. But let
Justice be done though the heavens fall.
Tia loyal citizens have lad more to oon-
tend with and have done more. under tho
surroundings. than those Of any other
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