The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-26
Rebel Raid Upon the Bluegrass Re.
gion.
Greatly Exaggerated Reports.
Rebels Put to Flight.

The regular train arrived from Lexington
last evening at the usual hour, and TO
Judge from the most reliable Information
received from passengers and through
the medium Of private Geographic dis
patches, we infer that the facts In regard
to the rebel advance upon Lexington were
greatly exaggerated. 1t is true, however,
that a rebel cavalry force had occupied
Richmond, Winchester and Nicholasville,
but we presume that that force was by
no means formidable, numbering, per-
haps, from eight hundred to one thousand
men and horses.
1t is known that the loyal citizens Of
Lexington have been in a high state OF
excitement since Sunday last, produced
by the arrival of courier there with in
telligence that heavy body of infantry
and cavalry, with several pieces Of artil
lery, were at Mount Sterling, twenty zone
miles distant from Lexington, aud that
force of rebel artillery was at Win
chester, eighteen miles eastward, on the
line of the turnpike, from the city Of
Lexington. In fact the greatest excite
ment existed throughout Central Ken
lucky, and many of the loyal residents
fed in every direction. |-U
From Coyington we learn, through the
medium of the Cincinnati papers, that the
passenger train due there at half-past
ten on Monday morning did not arrive
until one o'clock in the evening, having
been detained in Lexington by the mill 3
tary authorities. The train which should
haW laF 81 A.
day was also detained there for some
purpose, and was behind time an hour or
two. No trains were sent out the road
from Covington after the reception of the
news. All rolling stock of the company,
except one engine and thirty empty
freight cars, which were left at Lexing-
ton to be used in Transporting troops, in
case Of emergency, was taken to Coving-
ton. The trains which arrived on Mon
day night brought large number of ro-
fugees. Many of them were pretty badly
| frightened, and told very unreasonable
stories in regard 10 the number of the
enemy.
A despatch dated at Frankfort on Mon
day says that much alarm exists there
concerning the recent raid of the rebels.
Col. Landrum has just arrived from Ian
caster. He regards the invasion as a
formidable one. twas believed that 5000
| Confederate troops were in Winchester
on Monday. The cars from Lexington
arrived at a point within five miles of
Frankfort on Monday and returned to
Lexington with troops
The well-informed agent of the asso-
ciated press in this city, Maj. Tyler, sent
a despatch abroad yesterday to the effect
| that the report of a rebel invasion of the
Bluegrass Region, which had created
| con siderable excitement here, was discred-
tied at headquarters. 1t is no doubt true
that the Bluegrass Region is not threatens
ed by an immediate invasion, but it is true
that rebel force has made its way to
within few miles of the very metropolis
of the "region," and il is true also that the
border counties of Kentucky, from the
Big Sandy to the Harpeth Shoals on the
Cumberland, have been overrun by ro-
wing bands of guerrillas, who are har-
RAISING the loyal residents of those
counties, threatening their lives and des-
polling them of all means of subsistence.
The residents of the Bluegrass region
may not be in immediate danger, but the
gallant and true spirits Of the mountain
counties, who are as much entitled TO
protection from our armies as their breth-
rem of the interior, have been suffering
for months from rebel incursions and
the country is expected to feel gratilied
with the announcement that the Blue
grass Region is safe. Our military au-
thorities should mot rest until the last
armed rebel is expelled not only from
the Bluegrass Region but from the very
borders of loyal Kentucky.
We received last night no confirmation
of the rumor that Charlton Morgan had
been captured and brought into Lexing-
ton, or that DIR. Steele, the rebel surgeon
had been wounded and taken prisoner
We presume that those rumors will moi
be confirmed. We infer also, that tn,
statements in regard TO the skirmishes
which it is said occurred on Monday il
the vicinity of Lexington, were either
untrue or greatly exaggerated.
The most perfect quietreignedin Frank
fort last evening at the time the train lief
for this city, all fear Of rebel raids having
been dismissed from tho minds of GU
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