The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-16
The vOIco OF an East rspnessean.
'1''' CAMP NEAR CARTHAGE, TESN,t
.....u.. rAprii 10th, 1868. ~


ticle room IN your valuable and much
liked paper, and you-will -Obligo-S rene
gade Tennesseap. ''H
Soldiers of Knox and other East Ten
nessee counties, you like myself, have
long since been driven from your homes
You have been robbed of your property;
you have been deprived of the enjoy
Tents Of y6orl0ved friends and families
What 10 all This for? WAS II because
You bad committed crime Was it be.
cause you had turned traitor 70 your
countryP l answer, no. You were drive
en- from your homes because your country
had beer, invaded by traitors and tories,
and you ntlerl y.re fused to AXE, up aims
against that government T. W which had pros
tected you from your very infsncy,
Mspy Of you, am personally acquainted
with, and by your fires I have warmed,
and at your tables l have Teasted, and
know that, you have been inspled and
denoun nced.asiraitors by perjursd rebels,
BECAUSE you loved theglorious old Unioni
ofrolr fathers; because you dared TO
praise The sacred old Stars and Stripes,
which have Aaated, victoriousIy over q
Thousand battle-felds of your nation.
For This alone you have beeh driven from
your homes, your. gives, your children,
your f athers, your,mOthers, y eur brothers,
aud our sisters; the y have been insulled
q thousand tmes'by these bloodthirsty
outls VS. and hl(- hounds OF JEFF Davis.
They still aeonti9ae to oppress,, murder,
and hang our loyal East Tennessesns.
How long 'is this oppression TO lhslP
Have not the cries Of many thousands
Of doEn.trodden people reached up 70
'Heave en,' and will .tbey not sUon be An-
sWered p .a-i7'no h1ies eiio +" rsr -.
% Now, fellow-soldiers and brothers in
arms, ourfaces are hOmewArd turned and
We are home ward bound The green aud
lovely spot of'oif youthful days lieS
just beyond thai noun ain top, and must
be re hched. Lnved ones are waiting TO
embrace US as'thefr usff'e rers 'ro"l oE's'
DAyB and his tory band Now, fellow
soldiers. my humble opinion is that be-
fore lhe ~ar'iSoSer' nara oa''les' must DC
foug gpt'ana greatViotories"on' 'heroes
must light, and heroes must iatl, In the
defepce Of q good and great nation, Jps'
thlhk Tor oHe'm0men'o Of yonr once peace
tut homes ana quiet hresides' ana tnen
lev Your minds'run over the bat,le-heHs
| ct Shiloh, ,C9rip'h, Fredericksburg and
! Murfreesb lFo' What great. contrasl'
and now we are here IN arms and ma
| Tor tlfe purpose OF hsh'ipg and eonqner'
| ing rebels, and unless THAI Is done, 'yor
.heet ! Rot expect ever to reach your homes
aea loyniIhef Union has sysr held US TO-
| gelher as friends, and afforded US all tbs
| freehom that an Intelligent peopl'
I,oOu ID ask, aud now, in order that w
4 may obtain-that same Freedom, LEI
us unite ourselves together rs a'eant
/ bro lhcrs and press forward in tie grea
and noble cause IN which we-are' no"
'eughgeds aud II that is done the time ~
| not fAr distant when our beloved Eas
4. Tennessee viii pc ip,opT Qwp bands, annt
i theh traitors will have 90 take up ,lhfi
aedde IN some o'oer iSnu' TOT we as rem
egades and they as tories can neve' lis
1 9gether.,r .g.., 60, gam tLI .,.g
4 Now,1let US lock forward; let ou
wal fhwCtd be East fenne'see or death
'fMp, Ike myself left your home am
ljoihed the United ,Stales service for q. 90
purpose of,protsciing the Union and tn
4 I'd ION people, ahd nut me puiposS' 20
4dHying the tories out OF our eodh'ry
bul have, no doubt but what you nav
nnol iced, as.wsll as | have, that our UniQ
! sot ,t,orI bsvS .ti,ne and aqain, ,been mad
: LIS ~, /, -. ~, .....-,.
sis 'egSi SSSt 80. So - 80
Now ! Tor one am ready 70 OBEY my So
= Bel ior officers and all lawful orders, or
" .,,hi,r :, ,ho I;no Of nv duty h,
...'s..,---..,,,t, u ...onor,v
PAS 10 suS'u'"s -
{ never viii do thab SO heIp me uou'
will guard all prisoners put undrr m
sInd al ,bnnsrtv belonping 10 A
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