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Bioren, x^fvw siuaii arqinf uny pieces 01artillery, and at least 1,000 negroes (some aay 2,500) were captured. Having dis-posed of Miles and bis army, Gen, Jack* sdn was marching rapidly down the Po-toxnao, with the intention of crossing below and getting in the rear of McClellan, thus cutting him of! effectually from W/ushington. These operations shed an altnost unparalled lustre on the Confederate arms.From the. Oherokees.We learn from private lettcrr received, that John Ross, Chief, Lewis Ross, Dr. Robt. D. Ross, and others, with many women and children, have been seized and carried off, by the Lincoln troops.— The houses of these gentlemen were stripped of every thing, their negroes and stock carried off, and their farms utterlv desolated. Miy. Geo. M. Murrell son-in-law of Lewis Ross, was one of the chief sufferers. His wife and children were orried off, and had not been heard from at la*t advices. The Chief refused to make a treaty with the United 8tates, and therefore these barbarities were inflicted. We saw a notice some weeks
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Athens Post
Athens, Tennessee, US
Fri, Sep 26, 1862
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