Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-03-02

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morning at 10 O'Clock.
Federal Reports from CumberIand Gap.
! Correspondents q the CHci mai Commercial
Cas5r NEAR CUMBERLAND FORD, February
is. 1862 -Here I am, away down on the boz
Z Gers Of 80 Dixie Land We ae ten miles fdlm
/ Cumberland Gap. We expect 10 have battle
4 30 ths glB shi- week Tie rebels are Wrll tgIti-
aad The Gap; their force Is two Thousand
Week before last one hundred and siS5y-iYe OF
ms went across the u5ultains on a scouting aN
petition we penetrated twenty miles FARTHER
INTO Tennessee than any Union troops eve- weut
before. We Intended TO attack one nuudred ia-
fauCy az g town named jacksbaro, but msJe-d
Of making an attack We made q hEsty retreat.
We found. beside the infantry, one hundred
cavalry, aud a few miles Of a regiment Of E-
tsntry was ststioDed In our Tatre4twe took tie
regular Gsl wnich runs in a hollow an the way;
On each siao there gre high cliffs and over
hanging Iocss. This road. for e distance ut
Z ten Or fifteen miles, was bl0c3ksded with trees by
the enemy We made slow progress, having
% ride around the butts OF the trees. We wee
i've days out
Day before yesterday another scouting part
was sent 0u1. which, for daring, exceeds any
thing I Lave yet Witnessed There were one
hundred Of them. They went with the colonel
nigh into the Gap. under the fortidcaa0ns t0CE
tlre- .-5lers, Eiied four, aud wounded three
I5i5-s bsrr.is5 La ryss. nd several srofis
The enemy fired two guns at cur men, aud
missed .Aem. There Was gTgas rejoicing IN our
camp 0n their return.
II. ss.3tlat he Gap cannot be tskon, uH-
less by coming 11 them by surprise, OF bY going
up each end at tas rsln.a.ns / think when
we Eet through the G4p wa have tie snake by
the neck. IN tennessee ana sates further south
- 5" o'
j. have seen several men. desertsrs from the
rebel army. who are Union men. and were inn
pressed into the rebel service we have one in
Jul cum
Ar Maynard member Of Congress from
isal. 'm4iTs- .se.-i-y' VA ga5 Ps2Pis
5ae bottom Of this rebellion win ian ont after re-.
rerag taeiu 70 og4o5 % DE re5a eaHss !'-Eoflb-
en- paper.
III less than sivty fsv- the 1sanra of the
NJ u5u =. ,sb u 40 ~, s.+
~
t-al Az Aaynald IS q false prophe,, i the
mighty sud Sabine uprising Of our people has
not aleady convinced them Of as much.
CrvnrRlAsp s.e-Tbo Northern papers
claim t5st tLs Federal t-oons have aiken NOSES.
sion Of Cumberland Gam The paris XIV
C4'-e4 u 1e Isl says
Intelligence has reached this place, through
an officer in the army, that the Federal forces
meeting wth tba least rcsis sauce, and that the
SeyeutI Kentucky regiment and he Sixteenth
Ohio are st the Gap. while the two Tennessee
regiments lave passed into Tennessee.
The Commercial publishes a dispatch as fol-
lows;
I2 88A, tS5Ena5y 2-CamoeTlanq cap
The Federal troops.
Ih9-A aSnlHgeH 4APA0Ch'
dated the 2Jd inst, says that General Scott viii
RI d, Nevico - mn additional minister. with
P'1I5 Fo'S avs 4
Corwins mends don't IKE the scheme, and
say ne viii resign il Scott lives to get there
whichis considered doubtful
The plan 70 buy of the allies fnds strong
oDpos ition IN the Senate.
dis week
e The New York Herald OF wednesday con