| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| January 10, 1862 |
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| Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 7, 1862 |
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| *** I cannot resist the temptation to
write you from the home of Brownlow, although wearied with a trip of
one hundred and nineteen miles, which consumed twelve hours on the rail.
*** This expression reminds me of the mountains I have passed to-day,
and "gray-headed" describes them to a dot. As the cars came
slowly along by them, one's thoughts were inevitably turned to the
traitors, who had scudded away in their fastnesses, and to the
nefarious acts of recent vandalism which caused the cars to move so
cautiously. |
| The running on the
East Tennessee
road is confined to day-light and then is performed with much
circumspection. All the bridges burned have been rebuilt, with the
exception of the one across the
Holston
at Union. This will be up within twenty days. A detachment of
Stovall's (Middle Georgia) Battalion is stationed at
Union. Georgia
troops guard the bridge over Lick Creek, and are stationed at Greenville, the former place of residence of Andy Arnold! Several
North Carolina
companies are at Morristown. The Government has stationed a competent
force at all important points. It is a most pleasing reflection that
some of the incendiaries have paid the penalty of their treason by
dancing on nothing, and that those who have escaped to the mountains
are being pursued with the sharpest sort of a stick! |
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