The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-07
News from tho West.
The following is from the latest Tennessee

to the number Of 5000, commanded by Gen.
Buell.. The invaders are quartered in the Cap
itol and all the public buildings of fhe city,
over all of which the stars and stripes are waiv-
ing They are rapidly erecting forti6cations-
guns, batteries, &c. at every point of approach
to the city. The city appears almost literally
deserted. Ladies are never seen upon the
streets, and the Inhabitants keep themselves
close. Nei; S. Brown and several other pron-
nent citizens have been arrested.
Gen. Buell. has entered Nashville, and made
a speech to the citizens, in which he disclaimed
any purpose Of molestng private rights. The
U. S. flag was hosted upon the capitol, amid
the cheers of some of the traitors who remain
ed in the city. Buell. had issued proclama.
tion, in which he offers amnesty to all who
will take the oath to support the Federal Gov
ernment.
HOW THF CITY WAS SURRENDERED.
The accounts which We get Of the surrender
of Nashville are most humiating. When
Mayor Chcatham first offered to surrender the
city to the Federal officer III command of the
Lincoln cavalry, he declined to accept it, sta
ting as reason that he was not authorized to
accept it. Scouts afterwards went out, in va
rious directions, hunting for Federal officer
with power to act, but after going some twenty
or thirty miles they could not find Federal
soldier anywhere.
At last the city was formally surrendered by
Mayor Cheatham on Sunday. 1t is true that
the Federas had not previously entered the
city, but a regiment of cavalry had cncampcd
in the town of Edgefcld, short distance from
Nashville. 1t was to this point that Mayor
Cheatham repaired, and formally rendered the
city with al. the public stores it contained to
the commander Of the Federal forces. The
Federas seemed oath to believe that the city
had really been surrendered, and accordingly
only sent over fifteen men to take posscssion-
and even these seemed to be on the lookout
for a surprise OF some sort.
There was large amount of bacon and
other army stores in the city of Nashville, and
COL Forrest, of Memphis, was engaged up to
Sunday afternoon attending on the saving and
transportation of the same. While engaged
Ill luiS SeT'iCc, mayor NHcdlHatu oppOscO, ana
told him to desist he having formally given up
the same to the Federal officer. Those of us
who know Col. Forrest can imagine what his
reply would be to such an order. He told the
Mayor that he ranked all officers then in the
city, that he was a Confederate officer, aud that
if he did not desist from interference, he would
take force. Subsequently, a lot Of low flung
characters about the city commenced series
of depradations upon private property, and the
Mayor being powerless to repress them, it is
reported that Col. Forrest took detachment,
and meeting them in the public square, killed
five of them before they were dispersed.
A Chattanooga correspondent of the Knox
vile Register, in giving an account of the panic
at Nashville, says:
1t seems that Gen. Johnston informed the
authorities of the city on Sunday last that he
could not hold it, although no enemy was near,
or threatened it. Immediately all was conster-
nation and alarm. The Governor and Legisla-
ture fled panic-stricken. With this example
set them, nothing better could be Expected of
the citizens MIR. V. X. Stevenson, Quarter
master-General, and President of the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad, ETC.. fled. Early
Monday morning he loaded several cars with
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