CHAP.XII.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

renegade Tennessean, of Captain Dickenson's company, U. S. Cavalry (he was shot in the stomach, and died in six hours); the other was shot below the left shoulder. Others were wounded.

I have examined into the circumstances of the pickets firing on each other. The picket stationed was not to blame. Mr. Cage and his escort got north of the picket and came galloping back from the direction of the enemy, riding captured horses with their gaudy trappings, and were mistaken for the enemy; and when the firing commenced, instead of calling out the name of one of the Rangers whom the picket would have known, they called, "It's Cage! It's Cage!" This confirmed the picket, and they kept up the fire. I have paid out of my own pocket for the articles stolen by our men. Confidence is restored, all the houses open, and families returned. Trunks and other articles found by our flankers in the woods I had carried to the house and labeled "Returned by Southern soldiers." The people all acknowledge they have been grossly lied to. Colonel Frame has another farm here at the river. I supplied our men with meat from its last night, and left word for the colonel that I would settle with him if he would come and see us at Bowling Green.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. R. CLEBURNE, Colonel, Commanding, &c.

RALEIGH, November 16, 1861.

J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War:

The reports from East Tennessee are so threatening, that the western borders of North Carolina are demanding protection. I have a regiment here, Colonel Vance's, just from that section. Shall I order them to the borders of East Tennessee?

HENRY T. CLARK.

SPECIAL ORDERS, } ADJT. AND INSP'R GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 224. } Richmond, November 16, 1861.

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XIII. Brigadier General Alexander P. Stewart, Provisional Army, will report for duty to General A. S. Johnston, C. S. Army, at Bowling Green, Ky.

By command of the Secretary of War: JNO. WITHERS, Assistant Adjutant-General.

RICHMOND, November 17, 1861.

Governor HENRY T. CLARK, Raleigh:

Please order your regiment at once to Jonesborough, Tenn., with orders to report to Colonel Leadbetter, of the Engineer Corps, who is in command of the line of railroad and needs re-enforcement to crush out the traitors.

J. P. BENJAMIN, Acting Secretary of War.