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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Scouting in East Tennessee. (search)
my eyes could obtain, I said in a pleasant tone: Well, my friend, you appear to take things rather coolly. Oh, yes, sir! I orter. I've been mighty hard put, but I reckon I'm good fur a nother pull now. Where are you from? Fentress county, nigh onter Jimtown (Jamestown). I'm scoutina it fur Burnside-runnina boys inter camp; but these fellers wanted ter jine Cunnel Brownlow-the old parson's son-down ter Triune. We put plumb fur Nashville, but hed ter turn norard, case the bruen. They'd heerd the firina nigh two mile off, ana come up, suspicionina how things wus. But, are there Union bands there? I thought East Tennessee was overrun with rebel troops. Wall, hit ar; but thar's a small chance uv Union goorillas in Fentress ana Overton county. They hide in the mountins, ana light down on the rebs, now ana then, like death on a sick parson. Thar is places in them deestricts thet a hundred men kin hold agin ten thousand They know 'em all, 'case they wus raised thar