M. J. Hawkins, W. Reddick, J. Parrott, D. A. Dorsey, W. Bensinger, J. K. Porter, A. Wilson, M. Wood, E. H. Mason, W. W. Brown, W. Knight, R. Bufman, W. Pettinger, David Fry, J. J. Barker. BRIDGE-BURNERS. T. McCoy, P. Pierce, B. Powers, Jno. Walls, Jno. Green, R. White, H. Mills, J. Tompkins, G. D. Barlow, Jno. Wollam." The next day Provost-Marshal Lee wrote again as follows: "HEADQUARTERS, ATLANTA, GA., "September 17, 1862. "HON. G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va. "SIR,--I respectfully forward to you hereby all that I have been enabled to obtain from my predecessor, Captain Foreacre. "The documents relating to the cases, so far as I know anything about them, were forwarded to you on yesterday. "I am, sir, very respectfully, "Your obedient servant, "G. W. LEE, "Commanding Post, and Provost-Marshal." The following letter, inclosed from Captain Foreacre, is wrong in saying that some of the party had been tried but not sentenced. Yet this was the obvious belief of the Confederate authorities: "ATLANTA, GA., September 16, 1862. "HON. G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va. "DEAR SIR,--Your letter of September 11, 1862, to Major Lee, provost-marshal, has been shown me by him, and, as far as I am acquainted with the matter, General Smith only sent from Knoxville instructions and orders to have seven of them hung, which was promptly attended to by myself. "The remaining fourteen were reported to this office only for safe-keeping,--some having been tried, but not sentenced, and others not tried. The only office which can properly answer your inquiry is that of Major-General E. K. Smith. "I have the honor to remain, "Your obedient servant, "G. I. FOREACRE." No record of any further inquiry remains. Whether the matter was there dropped, or orders issued for opening the whole question by a court-martial, remains uncertain. But these documents make it almost certain that all the party, or at least the twelve who were sent to Knoxville, were destined to be tried and condemned; that at the abrupt breaking up of the court, no record was put on file of the cause of the interruption; and that the authorities at Atlanta and Richmond expected the court at Knoxville, which they assumed to have finished its work, to give orders for our disposal. That court never reconvened. Its members were dispersed all over the South. The commanding general, E. Kirby Smith, was transferred to a distant department. We were forgotten, and thus the strange respite we enjoyed is explained. But would it continue?