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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Chattanooga, Tenn. (search)
as it were, "fuel to the flame." Every one thought the "Philistines were on us," and your correspondent acknowledges a gentle tremor of the muscle and slight knocking together of the knees as he contemplated the manner in which he would have to "make tracks," or rest in the walls of some Northern bastille. But no enemy have made their appearance, and to-day things present a brighter and more cheering aspect, for we know that Chattanooga will not be taken right away. Last night, General Lead better ordered an advance of a portion of his command. They went own as far as Shellmound, and from there a scouting party was sent out which proceeded as far as the river.--They report that the enemy have retired beyond. Bridgeport. From all the facts I can pick up, I do not think they ever intended coming further than Bridgeport, and the destroying the bridge, but as our forces did the last job for them as well as they could in the hurry they were in, the Federalists no doubt fe