Invasion of North Georgia and Western North Carolina
--Barbarity of the Invaders and Tories.--a correspondent of the Atlanta Register, writing from Walhalla, South Carolina, Jan. 24th, says:‘ This point is the western terminus of the Columbia and Anderson Railroad, and verges upon the confines of North Georgia and West North Carolina.
’ I presume you have heard of the recent invasion of Western North Carolina and a small portion of Towns county, Ga., by a column of Yankee cavalry 1,500 in number. They came from East Tennessee and entered North Carolina through the county of Cherokee. They were stopped by the want of subsistence for themselves and nurses, and the frequent assaults upon them in their forages by the Carolina Home Guards, and a portion of the indian forces of Thomas's Legion, then scouring the mountains in quest of bush whackers. In their invasion and retreat, as usual, they pillaged indiscriminately, and carried off with them many negroes, horses, cattle, food and clothing But the climax of their atrocities was the capture of two Confederate soldiers at home upon furloughs, whom they delivered over to the merciless bush whackers of West North Carolina and East Tennessee, who immediately shot them. The names of these two soldiers were Young Colbert and Davidson.
Our Government ought to retaliate at once by having shot three Yankee prisoners. These men were estimable citizens and Valliant soldiers. I knew them well. Since then the bushwhackers of this county, of Cherokee and Union, Ga., have murdered in the presence of his family, Lieut.-Col. W. C. Walker, of Thomas's Legion while on a visit to see the same. His son, an officer in the same Legion, Mr. Young, on Valley river, Col. Davidson's son, and several others whose names I have forgotten
