Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-11-09
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Georgia.
FROM THE FRONT.

The La Grange Reporter says: We learn
from what seems to be- reliable source,
that Gen. Hood crossed the Tennessee Riy-
er ON Saturday and Sunday, October 24th
and 25th-where, We did not learn. On
Friday, $4,000 pairs Of shoes and 1000
coats and jackets were issued to therrmy-
nearly all of which were,captured from the
enemy. Hood captured more at Ringgold
than he could bring away. We understand
from the same source, that supplies will
hereafter be sent around to Corinth, and
that the, army will strike somewhere in
Middle Tennessee, between Nashville and
Chattanooga. The men are still In the
highest spirits.
An officer who left Hoods headquarters
few days ago, says that he was then at
point in North eastern Alabama, the precise
locality Of which we. leave the enemy TO
discover. His army was in fine condition,
well pleased with what they had already
accomplished, and hopeful and eager in re.
gard to the future. =. i.
A portion of the staff of Gen. Beaure.
gard, with the headquarters baggage, is now
at Oxford, Mississippi.
| An officer who arrived at. Blue Noun
tain, from Hoods army, on Sunday, states,
positively, that Decatur has been captured,
with four thousand prisoners. Three regi.
ments ofnegroes were among them. -
Gen. ,Ferguson's Brigade, Of Wheeleps
cavalry, had hard fight on Tuesday even.
ing last, with the Yankee Gen. Fitzpatrick,
at Lediga, thirteen miles from Jacksonville,
in which the enemy were driven from the
field, with a loss of twenty-five killed and
wounded. They Withdrew on the Rome
road. q q eS g:
There still aconside bic; Yankee force
lon the Gooss, and rumors are rife, in jack.
sonville, of7an intended raid eonthe Ala
bama and, Tennessee River Railroad. Gen.
WheelerSis in front. of this force, in sufi.
lcient strength to hold any ordinary advance
in check. =, = s.;
Gen. Cheatham is reported advancing on
Huntsville, and Sherman concentrating at
Bridgeport.
Hood has cut loose from Blue Mountain
and Jacksonville, as base of supplies.
A correspondent of the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser says that the rumor that Coriuth
and Shiloh. are again to be occupied is in
correct.
FROM RANs-MIssIsSIPPI.
Gen. Kirby Smith has issued an order
requiring commanding officers to turn over
to Brig. Gen. Hays all officers aud men
serving in their commands belonging to
military organizations East of the Missis;
sippi now, who may have come into the
Trans.M Mississippi, since the fall of Vicks.
burg, and have not been regularly assigned
to the command with which they are ser.
wing, by proper authorities. Gen. Hays
f,wilI establish q camp at Alexandra, where
he will collect and forward the men to their
commands on this side of the river.
~. "a EAST TENNESSEE.
The Lynchburg Republican of Tuesday,
has intelligence of fight between our
forces under Gen. Vaughn, and the Yam
KEGS in East Tennessee, in which our troops
were worsted and compelled to fall back.
The fight occurred on Friday last, at or
near Morristown. But very few particulars
were received by the Western cars Monday
night, but itswas stated that Gen. Vaughn
lost four pieces of artillery and between
200 and 800 in killed, wounded and miss
| ing. Among our killed were Col. Lilly
and Capt Cannon. Col. Simmerman is
reported to have been mortally wounded,
and was left in the hands Of the enemy
The fight vas hand to hand one, and our
troops held their ground until forced back
by the sheer weight:of numbers.
The enemy have been largely reinforced
| in East Tennessee, and unless a correspon
ding increase is made in our force, the
country will again.be oyerrun by them.
Our forces, as ne had understood, were
in the vicinity Of Morristown, aud the enc,
my at and around New Market and Straw.
berry Plains-the. former on the railroad
about twenty-five miles this side of f,knox'
vile. Morristown is also on the railroad,
about twelve miles farther this way. The
enemy had at Knoxville two negro regi'
msnt5, numbering some 1860 and about
,