the city of New York--every other office being filled except this; on Thursday, we received a satisfactory message; we returned on the 15th; Mr. Andrews remained a few days; I have not stated all the conversation, but the substance of it.
Stoneman's raid — a List of Munchausens.
Stoneman has arrived at Nashville, and gives a regular Munchausen account of his raid into Southwestern Virginia.
The following is the story:
The forces consisted of General Burbridge's troops and General Gillem's East Tennessee troops, all under command of Major-General Stoneman.
They left Knoxville on the 18th.
The movement was unknown to the rebels, who were not discovered until after three days.
At Kingsport, General Jones's command was attacked, consisting of about five hundred of Morgan's old command.
The forces were killed scattered, or captured.
Next, the rebel forces of Vaughn were discovered at Papertown, near Bristol, trying to effect a junction with Breckinridge, at Saltvill
hen they started from Savannah.
A toilsome march, through the marshes and sands of South Carolina, under the hot Southern sun, has taken much of the freshness, vigor and fight out of them.
From Tennessee — movements of Thomas, Rosecrans and Gillem — Rumored raid into Southwestern Virginia.
Recent advices from Tennessee are to the effect that Gillem has been reinforced by Thomas, with cavalry, at Knoxville, Tennessee, preparatory, it is thought, for a move into Southwestern Virginia.
Gillem has been reinforced by Thomas, with cavalry, at Knoxville, Tennessee, preparatory, it is thought, for a move into Southwestern Virginia.
Thomas has garrisoned Tunnel Hill and Chattanooga with three regiments at each place.
Three small regiments of negroes, Dutch and Irish, are at Bridgeport, and two regiments at Stevenson.
The garrisons are very small from Stevenson to Huntsville.
The rest of Thomas's army is at Huntsville, Decatur and Eastport.
Rosecrans has five brigades in Middle Tennessee, scouring the country for supplies and recruits.
The "rebel" soldiers they catch have the choice of joining the Yankees or
uthwestern Virginia.
We have, through private letters and other trustworthy sources, positive intelligence relative to Thomas's movements and force in East Tennessee.--There is little doubt that he is preparing a grand "On-to-Richmond" movement through Southwestern Virginia.
His column, which is already in motion, consists of not less than twenty thousand men,--the latest advices state, seventeen thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry,--the greater part of which are at Bull's gap, ten miles east of Morristown and eighteen miles below Greenville.
He is advancing leisurely towards Bristol, rebuilding, as he advances, the East Tennessee railroad.--His objective point is believed to be Lynchburg.
A report reached here yesterday, by telegraph, that Gillem, at the head of the Fourth Yankee army corps, was moving down upon Bristol, and that Stoneman, with a heavy cavalry force, had started from Knoxville on a raid into North Carolina, with Salisbury as his objective point.
