the varied emotions which it was my lot to experience that

small, active, busy man, with a determined way about him, and his

countenance indicated great intelligence. He gave minute information

that was of inestimable value to me regarding East and Middle

Tennessee and northern Georgia, for, with a view to the army's future

movements, I was then making a study of the topography of this

region, and posting myself as to Middle Tennessee, for all knew this

would be the scene of active operations whenever the campaign was

resumed. This man, like most of the East Tennesseans whom I had met,