Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-18
Notes by the Way.
NAsnyILLE, JUNE 3,

NAbhflLLEi JpHN - 'N''
Aware that this hastily written letter viii
not reach Knoxville in time for this weeks
issue, | nevertheless write, believing the
few items give will be still Of interest next
week
Aud first, the farming operations from
Loudon to Chattanooga, were more extel'
sive than | expected TO find them, This
consideration, taken in connection with the
great abundance OF fruit, rather satisfied me
that our people are not 10 starye, as We have
all feared
remained from O'Clock in the evening
until the hour of three next afternoon, aud
learned u good many items in regard to the
grand march Of Sherman upon Georgia
that We had not come in possession Of ut
Knoxville The fighting has been hard and
constant, and We have been driyingthe enc.
my all tho time and from every position he
has taken, The citizens all along the linc
are fleeing in perfect CONSERVATION, going
with the retreatng rebel forces Being de-
MED their rights at home, they seek them by
going South, leaving their homes and fire
sides, fields Of grain, and growing crops,
beside much Of their loose plumber end live
stock They rush back to the South with
their negroes, and more valuable property,
in the vain hope Of not being pursued by
! the brave defenders Of the Union. Vain
delusion The cotton States will he made
to feel now what they promised their PEG.
pie never should visit thcm--the horrors OF
war
AT Rome, Georgia, We captured several
thousand bales of rebel cotton, strung along
the Coosa river, in readiness to be shipped
to Mobile Beside this cotton, we captured
$4,000 sacks of salt. large army stores, and
q heavy amount OF machinery. Gen. Van
divcrer is in command at Rome and will
take care of the cotton and salt, and see
that il falls into the hands Of the Govern
ment. Various loyal men will spring up in
Georgia who will claim this valuable prop
erty bl it all won't do, it is rebel property
and abandoned at that.
There is good hotel kept in Chattanooga
now, by Mr.. Bishop, and n traveller is made
toiccI at home. it is the "Cruchticld House
re-ftcd and furnished II will do well, and
deserves TO do well
Chattanooga can boast Of Post Com.
mandant, in the person Of Gen. Steadman
second to none in our army, He is the
right man in the right place, and know.
inst how to appreciate thomerits and integ
rity Of a rebel, and how to reward both.
From Chattanooga, | came the route by
Huntsville, Pulaski, and Columbia, Frank
? lin, &c, to this city. Not one in five Of tn,
thousands Of acres Of rich land in hlabam;
is in cultivation mean that portion cam,
through, Scarcity Of negroeS, and abscnc,
in the army of their onnerI is the cause.
was struck with the fact that after leaving
Stevenson, until | got ont Of Alabama,
, found the bridges and road guarded by ne
groes. dressed in the blue uaitolm. Til
, thing ought 10 20 on until the leading rebel
in all the cotton States are made to call upor
4 negro prOrost marshal to give them passc
to 20 in and out of the towns.
In Giles, Maury and Williamson counties
found farming operations greater than
looked for Wheat and rye look well, anC
SO does the young cotton.
Nashville presents busincss-like appear
ance. The vast stream Of government store,
going through to Sherman's army require.
hundreds Of cars each day, and the building
here Of new and large houses for storage
W. G. B.