Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-10-24
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FROM ENNESSEF-WRRELER Frs EXPLOITS
The Columbus Sun states, on respectable authority
tea. the Fed.rals have evacuated Huntsville tui Shat
they have still small gsrrsOns at Bridgeport Surrees-
boro, Lebanon snd MeMinnvie. The garrison Al Nash
vile is represented to be nine bundled
From Major Booe the Atlanta IntelligeDcer has gath.
cred the following additional particulars Of he opera
tons o. zen. Wneeor in Tennessee:
From the accounts given by Asior Hope, it seems
that be sp.ured upward OF eleven hundred and sIy
Eve E-So.s in the S,quzcOe Valley, bul dred aud
sixty Of Who- be Destroyed, and the rema der he sue
csedei 10 brig ng safely seloss the P,nDsSsee. De
slot u3uar1 tEisty i've tuajced mul, ana brought
out Witg am usSyly OBS ttJUa AID horses and mules
A. AcAnny.ie ae destroyed t-irsy days raEioas' foe
hJsec11oz erire array 20 Gol.E neen au-oFec e&cks
OF green coffee, ana 500 0arre!s Of plroae6 cor
dee with other stores in pr portion At 4eAunvle be
also destroyed $50 trains o. car loAcsd cc ChaEaaoO-
"a aud also the railroad rack for Geary fifteen les
He then DESTROYED tie track % the Nashville and Cha
tanooga rsiirosd fer ne2ry tsehts miles below MUG
frses5O;o. Hs los Lhres pieces Of artillery, and
about thousand men in KILLED wounded and PRISON
ers, tbe moss OF them being pusOneis-
10 connection Nith toe above, extract tde follow
Ing from special 20 the Rebel at Marietta daled the
18th nsL which states that after be pArosd tho pison
ers captured he then dashed sud destro- cd the
bridge over S,oae and Duck river, While Wharton
threatened Aur'ressooro. WhaT;ol then joined Wheel
er &C Shelby lie. The enemy were reinforced, Snd
fsGgat and drove WEss.sF bach. lie rsue-ssd AFRO }
the Tennessee river, near Coug;lal6, Al Our loss
bssvy bat it brilliant eIploit R,dcy < repoItsd
70 lave blown Up Gae tlnael al COW4rS"
The Montgomery Advertiser publishes following
annexed extract from Capt. Reese, Of Whseers
Der trip has been hard one. But re are no rest-
leg ion sure) In the Trip suppose must have
bOs. AT least 500 msn killed vuuadsd and prisCners.-
The damage done the eneUy s immense. We crossed
the Tennessee river going ffty miles above Chattanooga
with I'VE thousand mounted men. Toe second day,
after heavy forced march over the mcur tAins, We
reached Toe o. Chattanooga, about twelve miles
from c. where We captured betseen i've 3ud SIX hun
deed Wagons and five hundred prisoners, engaged in
Transporting eonmissary ROsscrSns' amy
The wagons and stores we're al buried. Here had
= slight engagement with the eECm; bu: succeeded in
driving them capturing the above mentioned prisoners
From Tiers crossed Cumberland mountains, oaptuF
ing AcAionvi.e With is gauison Zone Regiment 400
me5) ard million dollars worth OF cCmmjssary store
From there marched towards Aurireesboro bura'ng
several important Railroad BRIDGE one Stones river
We captured She0yvLe il being evacuated our sp-
preach.
We captured aud psrOled presume 1000 prisoners
during the trip.
Information received at Atlantis says Major Mcdonald
was killed in the expedition. Col WoOeWard's regi-
nsnt, well the whole brigade it IS in, we're badly
Gus up.