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NASHVILLE. 



It is ordered that no goods shall be sold in, or taken 

 away from, this town or vicinity, toward the enemy's 

 lines, without a written permit from the Provost Mar- 

 shal of the city, which permit shall specify and contain 

 an accurate list of the articles that may be bought, 

 sold, and shipped ; but this prohibition shall not apply 

 to necessary articles, not contraband, in small quanti- 

 ties absolutely necessary for family use, sold to citizens 

 of the town or neighborhood, the person selling and 

 buying and transporting being held to a rigid account- 

 ability that no improper use is made of the same. 



Any person violating this order, or in any way aid- 

 ing or consenting to its violation, will be held as an 

 enemy and punished accordingly. 



All guards and officers are charged with the arrest 

 of any and all persons violating this order, and will 

 examine wagons and other vehicles of transportation, 

 to see that it is enforced. 



On June 8 an order was published entirely 

 forbidding the retailing of intoxicating liquors. 



On July 13 the Nashville " Union" publish- 

 ed the names of some 700 persons, a portion 

 of those who had voluntarily taken the oath of 

 allegiance before the provost marshal in that 

 city. 



The ravages of the guerillas in the vicinity 

 of Nashville caused great alarm, and it was be- 

 lieved that they were about marching upon the 

 city, which at this time was but ill prepared 

 for a defence. At the suggestion of a few pri- 

 vate persons the military band of the 69th Ohio 

 marched through the streets on the 14th, and 

 word being given that the loyal citizens would 

 hold a meeting for the purpose of organizing a 

 force for home defence, in a short time a large 

 procession gathered and proceeded to the cap- 

 itol. Here they Avere addressed by the gover- 

 nor, the mayor, and other persons, and the gov- 

 ernor, in the course of his speech, made the 

 following offer : " All loyal men who will take 

 the obligation, will be furnished with arms and 

 ammunition. If the volunteers serve as much 

 as a month, they shall be paid for their time, 

 and if absent from home shall receive ra- 

 tions." 



A large force was very soon recruited, and 

 reinforcements arrived also from the army, so 

 that the panic died out. Toward the end of 

 the month the guerrillas succeeded for a time 

 in completely cutting off communications by 

 railroad and telegraph between Nashville and 

 the North. Some of the streets of the city 

 were barricaded on the night of July 21, in 

 anticipation of the approach of Col. Forrest, 

 and the work of fortifying the city was pushed 

 forward with the greatest possible rapidity. One 

 thousand negroes, belonging to Confederate 

 slaveowners of the county, were impressed by 

 Col. Miller, commanding the post, to labor on 

 the fortifications. Their masters were required 

 to provide them with tools and subsistence, and 

 the length of service and terms of payment 

 were to be fixed by the Government. About 

 the middle of August railroad communication 

 with Nashville was again cut off; prices of 

 nearly all the necessaries of life rose to an un- 

 precedented height, and apprehensions were 

 felt of a scarcity of provisions. The demolish- 

 ed tracks and bridges were replaced as speedily 



as possible, but intercourse continued extreme- 

 ly precarious and irregular. 



The following circular was addressed by Gov. 

 Johnson to a number of the richest secession- 

 ists of Nashville, especially to those who had 

 distinguished themselves by their hostility to 

 the Federal Government or their active friend- 

 ship for the rebel authorities : 



STATE OF TENNESSEE, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, I 

 NABHILLE, August 18, 1862. j 



SIR : There are many wives and helpless children in 

 the city of Nashville, and county of Davidson, who 

 have been reduced to poverty and wretchedness in 

 consequence of their husbands and fathers having 

 been forced into the armies of this unholy and nefarious 

 rebellion. Their necessities have become so manifest, 

 and their demands for the necessaries of life so urgent, 

 that the laws of justice and humanity would be vio- 

 lated unless something was done to relieve their suffer- 

 ing and destitute condition. 



You are therefore requested to contribute the sum 

 of dollars, which you will pay over 



within the next five days to James Whit worth, Esq., 

 Judge of the County Court, to be by him distributed 

 among these destitute families in such manner as may 

 be prescribed. 



Respectfully, Ac., 



ANDKEW JOHNSON, Military Governor. 

 Attest: 



EDWARD H. EAST, Secretary of State. 



The sums thus assessed ranged from $50 to 



Gen. Eousseau took command at Nashville 

 about the 28th of August, by which date the 

 capital was again, for the fourth time since its 

 occupation by the Union forces, completely iso- 

 lated from the North. Gen. Rousseau waa 

 succeeded a week or two later by Maj.-Gen. 

 Thomas, and he shortly afterward by Gen. 

 Negley. In view of a threatened attack upon 

 the city by Gen. Bragg, police and military regu- 

 lations were made more stringent. On the 9th 

 of Sept. an order was issued by the provost 

 marshal forbidding the "sale of intoxicating 

 liquors (spirituous, malt, or vinous), wholesale 

 or retail, publicly or privately," in the city of 

 Nashville and vicinity ; and on the 10th the 

 following order Avas published by command of 

 Gen. Thomas: 



Hereafter any citizen found in the streets of Nash- 

 ville between the hours of 9 p. M. and reveille (day- 

 light) without a written pass, will be arrested and 

 confined. Passes to be out after 9 o'clock p. M. will 

 only be granted at the headquarters of the Major- 

 General Commanding. 



The Confederate generals J. E. Anderson and 

 Forrest, with the Confederate governor, Harris, 

 concentrated a large force with the avowed 

 purpose of assaulting Nashville ; but on Oct. 7 

 were completely routed at Lavergne, 15 m. 

 from the city by a detachment of Gen. Negley's 

 forces under command of Gen. Palmer. Soon 

 afterward a force of 8,000 or 10,000 Confed- 

 erates appeared before Nashville and opened a 

 cannonade from a hastily constructed battery, 

 but they were driven off with little difficulty, 

 the movement having been probably a feint to 

 cover other operations. At the same time Col. 

 Morgan's guerillas attempted to destroy the rail- 

 road bridge at Nashville (which had bee^ re- 



