The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-18
Old Men Sixty Years Of Age Press
ed into the Rebel Service.

The BuiletiR learns via Tuscumbia,
That the rebels have moved a very large
portion Of their army from Virginia to
Vicksbnrg, and have also taken from
Mobile all the garrison except a few
thousand for police duty.
The railroad rom Meridian 70 Selma,
Alabama, is completed, aud daily run
ming bsiween those points II is very
useful TO the rebels, enabling them 10
concentrate rapidly a force at Vicksburg
The hospitals cstablished by the rebels
at Iuka will shortly be abandoned
There are only seventy wounded ia the
hospitals. The others have recovered
and have been exchanged or paEolled.
When JEFF. Davis undertook 10 force the
c0nscription in East Tennessee, about
four-lfths Of the loyal Union men of
that section went through the mountains
to Kentucky, where, they joined the Union
army A similar attempt in North AL
ALBANIA and Mississippi is now driving
The Union men away from their families
and forcing them TO take up arms against
the kingdom of JEFF, There is perfect
reign Of terror in North Alabama and
North Mississippi, and daily the Union
armies are receiving recruits who glad
ly enlist and support the Union and the
Constitution.
Advices from Mississippi and Alabama
to last Friday have been received. The
news is interesting. Van Dorm, with a
cavalry force of $500 crossed the Ten
nessee river at Eastport about a week
ago, and was supposed TO be moving on
to get convenient position to cut Rose
Grams communications. The precise des-
tiuation is unknown, but il is not improb-
able that the movements will be closely
watched, and that he will fnd another
Murphy asleep at his post
Gen. Forrest was not in the recent eight
at Fort Donelson, nor has he been in
Tennessee since Gen. Jeremiah G. Sulli-
van, the Union hero in command at Jack
son, gave him such a hogging near the
Tennessee river. Forrest came TO Ten
nessee with 1000 men and 10 pieces Of
cannon, but after circulating around be-
tween Columbus and jackson, Sullivan
fell upon him and thrashed him we'll
driving him before him with much
slaughter, taking prisoners and capturing
eight of his guns. This misadventure
brought Forrest down with the rebels,
who denounced him for remaining In
Tennessee long enough TO get whipped.
Hence, he has been ordered TO Richmond
in disgrace, to answer for his failure
The information comes by way Of Tus-
cumbia, Alabama, and may be relied
upon.
Dawson's guerrillas, persistent band
who have had their headquarters at Dy-
ersburg for some time past on lastSI
Thursday made a demonstration toward
our railroad. Capt. MafIetfs small force
was sent to meet them, and that night
came upon them near stream, and after
brief contest, in which were killed
and 10 wounded, captured the remain
der, with arms, equipments, &C. Daw-
son, who is Lieutenant-Co man
aged to escape lie was in charge of
the entire rebel force in that part of
Tennessee.
Roddy, anotherrebeI operator, at Tus-
cumbia, with a command estimated at
nine hundred, the remainder having been
sent to re-enforce Bragg, is committing
an equal amount of depredatons.
Great outrages are now experienced by
the unfortunate residents of North Ala
bama and Mississippi. In the latter
State the Legislature recently enacted a
law embracing as conscripts all men not
included in the Confederate act. The act
of Jef. Davis includes all from eighteen
TO forty years of age, and that recsnly
passed takes all from forty 10 SIXTY years of
age. The territory of Mississippi has
been laid off in districts of twenty miles,
and recruiting Colonels appointed for
each district. A thousand Colonies have
been appointed 10 enforce the conscript
act, and the militia act in North Ala
bama is even worse. Many Union men
in that section state that violent efforts
are made to force them into the Confed-
crate ranks. The Union men have long
hid out in the woods aud caves, rather
than be taken as conscripts. This in
duced a novel hunt for them. GuerriHas
and blood-loliads haze been PIT upon their
tracls and many Poor victims have been smell
out ia his 'oay
Not long since yolsag girl, carrying fool
10 her father, ieto iUas hiding ia cafe, tuas
attached By one Of these blood hounds and torn,
top eces.
II is estimated not less than 1000
Union men from Mississippi and Ala
bama, have made their way 20 Corinth,
where Gen. Dodge made all possible pro-
visions for them. Gen. Dodge sent out
and brought in the families of the perse-
cuted and downtrodden Union men, and
has established a sort Of oncampment or
home for all these families at Purdy,
where they are likely to be freed from
prosecutions.
Az Corinth a regiment is forming Of
Union men from Alabama and Mississip-
pi. II already numbers six full compa-
mics. Capt. j. @. Cameron, Provost Mar
shall OF the District Of Corinth, is 20 be
Colonel. This regiment is made up from
among those who have recently suffered
prosecutions.
Abraham Kennedy andJ. A. Mitchell.
Of Hackeldo settlement, Munroe county,
Ala, Aavs bca hung by he rebels for inal.lg-
ing Uiion proclvities. M. H0Hioork and
daughter Of ne same county haze 6o0a shot
ana Rector Lewis, an immediate neigh
Dor, Of suspected Union procliyities,
was hunted d0,Oa By hoodb0inas and oaptiir-
ei. The house Of j. A Palmer, Worly
Williams, and other Union men, were
burned over their families heads, aud
the people living in tbs neighborhood
notified that il they harbored them their
own houses would be burned. Mr..
Peterson living az the head Of Ball Noun
tain was killed for Union sentments--
Iioo i0oniea iH Iaku1ibia coUnfy pers tom
q pieces by Hooii0mias In addition 70 the
foregoing one hundred families driven
out Of Alabama, reached Corinth on foot
without food or clothing. Some Of the
fugitigre Ar, old men. eighty Vears Of a.e