The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-02-09
East Tennessee and Georgia Items,

East Tennessee and GeOfgla Items
From the Chattanooga Gazette, Feb. Z
GUERRILLAs. The country south and
east of Chattanooga is swarming with
bands of rebel cavalry, in numbers
ranging from ten to fifty. The men
composing these gangs are mostly fur
loughed soldiers from the rebel army of
Dick Taylor, who has sent nearly his
whole command off on purpose to ena
bic them to feed themselves. Every
day we hear Of their appearance in six
or seven different places Yesterday
morning a party of wOhundred cross
ed the track Of the Knoxville road be
tween Ootowah and Mcdonald g station
They had been in Bradley county, near
ly to the Tennessee river, gathering up
horses; they did no injury that we have
heard of either to the road or the tele-
graph wire.
Another party attacked the pickets
at Tunnel Hill, but were driven of
At the time of the last attack on Tun-
nell Hill, Hoskins who was in command
of the guerrillas, shot and killed one
of our soldiers, who was lying sick in
the hospital tent
On Friday last, part Of the same
/ gang surrounded the house of one Of
our scouts named Walls, living six miles
from Dalton He took to the woods
but they followed him and shot him
three times, once very badly in the leg.
lie was brought into Dalton and his leg
amputated, but he sank under the OPP
eratien and died on Sunday night
A contractor named Conrad Weimar,
getting out railroad ties, went out from
Dalton few miles and party of these
fellows meeting him in the road robbed
him OF two thousand dollars
Col. Glenn, of the Sd Confederate
cavalry, has his headquarters n few
miles beyond Spring Place. A Major
Hawkins is second in command He
led the attack on Athens, the other
day Glenn's force il continually X
creasing, being augmented by men com
ing home from the rebel army
TIE FIeur AT LAFAYErrE.-From some
Of the scouts who were in the fight
with a portion OF Gatewoods gang,
near Lafayette, last week, we have
learned some additional particulars Of
the affair The guerrfllas numbered
about sixty and were commanded by a
Captain Waters They were csmped
on the farm of man named Guree, at
the foot of Pigeon Mountain, on the
Dug Gap road, two miles west OF Lafay-
ette. About O'clock at night, the adj
vance of the scouts, ran against their
picket, who fred on them and ran into
camp A portion Of Colonel GOWNS
command was dismOunted, and formed
in line in an old field. The advance
of our forces followed the retreating
picket into the camp Most of the
guerrillas, had been sleeping by the
sides of their horses, and, on the first
alarm, they were drawn up IN line in
the road, but nothing daunted By their
numbers, they Immediately charged
them, and sharp hand to hand fight
ensued, during which the rebels had
eight men killed. A regular stampede
ensued among them, and as they ran
they threw off their blankets, arms and
accoutrements to enlighten themselves
Next morning, party OF them, VINO
had lost their horses, and were hunting
for them, were met by little squad Of
the scouts, and tive Of them were killed
A third one was wounded, bat he, with
the remainder Of the gang, took to the
rocks, where the -horsemen could not
follow them.
REBELS At REGCoLD On Saturday
night last, fifteen guerrillas went to /
the place of Mr. Nathan Anderson, .
living near Ringgold, and carried of .
two negro men belonging 20 him The /.
squad was commanded by fellow .
named Jim Edwards
FlRSC HEARD-The troops quarter (
ed on Lookout Mountain, heard dis
tinctly, sounds Of mNsketry firing in
Lookout Valley, in the direction OF
Trenton. Nothing is known IS 20 the {
cause Of the firing A guerrilla leader