Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-23
East TeHnssuee.
From tbe Southern Guardiun.I


Mr. EDITOR: an exile from Knoxville, ban.
shed by order Of Gen. Foster for "psrsistont dsy-
atty" and witness Of what occurred there during
te occupation Of East Tennessee by the Feders until
the Oh Of February, and ask small space In your
columns for brief narrative Of what know to Be
have expectation hOws of giving any adequate
conception Of that regu Of terror"-no word. painting
can do this. Words can communicate facts sud incl
dents but what words represent the general feeling
Of insecurity the unigersal dstrus the DARK suspicion
the appalling terror the dread expectancy, where every
family keeps nightly vgis awaiting In helpless impO-
tency the rude Intrusion Of midnight robberH and
sins into tAe sacred enclosure. cannot now, Bfter
have escaped from IT, represent Il TO myself il
more like q fearful dream than 3 waking reality. g.
The frat intmstion had Of the approach Of the ens
nv was the flight Of a young eavairyman Of Knoxville.
G. Hagen. who riding full speed down Gay
With about thirty Federal eavarY In isroe pnrsuit-
Right noby did that boy bear himself in the chase erect
and defiant he sat his charger and urged him 10 great
er speedthe Are few from every stroke Of the hOof0n
the rocky pavement and II blazed from thirty guns In
his rear. His obec was to gain and swim the rennss
see river at the foot Of Gay street. but he headed
OF and captured before he reached the river He was
LODGED in jail and the same night made his escape, and
Is now in LoHgsreeta army. This same boy, in compa
nv with i've Others returned after the battle Of Oheka
manga and by themselves captured hfosn wagons snd
ed ten days in the vicinity terror 70 all Yankees This
boy che son Of most violent Union man. All the
young men Of East Tennessee, Of noble instincts,
IKE this boy II Is the old precedent men, who look
fora and AFT who welded TO the DID, the familiar tina
tried who dread the unknown, the novel the untIied
10 Tennessee everywhere else who cng to the Fed
eraI Government reserve the yosng ladies Of East
for future chapter, and intend TO make #
a conspicuous chapter.
The next day, after the occupation Of Knoxville,
yess began be made In one week all The sils were
filed From every Dark place Of conceslnent in The
city. where he had been hid while the Confedsrates
were In the sscendeney creeped forth the BYeophan the
informer Men who had, under tbs guiss Of zeal for the
Confsdsraey obtained contracts and mads fortunes,
now threw of the mask and stood forth the shameless
scensers Of their brethrsn AllfAith extingshsd,
an men were fsd with dstrus the bonds Of society
we're broken, LO one felt from the snOihered
whisper OF the veled The private grudges,
the old animoaiss the secret envy and malignant hate
of years are summoned upzfor terrible neribnilon-
There arc some men whom always cOnhds In
aen whom danger, calamity, threats Of tyrGnts com
srng wrong only press closer T. siae, but alas
nw few When friendship s TO be maintained at the
expense Of jeopardy properly TO reputation 70 life
then furnished with thu test and e its
strength many in Knoxville tried In this fun
and they came out Of the FIRE unsczthed, and hsnk
God my faith in my kind Is established. But the
ssrstehed drivelng money makers In Knoxville, found
unfaithfn 10 friend, TO country and to God. TAis
lesson for those who viii iezrD. know in Knox.
Vile who has made fortuno during this war who hzs
nos, tn that fortune become Judas. We cannot
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