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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign. (search)
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 33 : the East Tennessee campaign. (search)
Chapter 34: Besieging Knoxville.
Closing on the enemy's lines
a gallant dash
the Federal positions
Fort Loudon, later called Fort Sanders
assault of the Fort carefully planned
General McLaws advises delay
the order reiterated and emphasized
gallant effort by the brigades of Generals Wofford, Humphreys, and Bryan twelve thousand effective men, exclusive of the recruits and loyal Tennesseeans.
He had fifty-one guns of position, including eight on the southeast side.
Fort Loudon, afterwards called for the gallant Sanders, who fell defending it, was a bastion earthwork, built upon an irregular quadrilateral.
The sides were, south front, columns of regiments.
Third. The assault to be made with fixed bayonets, and without firing a gun.
Fourth. Should be made against the northwest angle of Fort Loudon or Sanders.
Fifth. The men should be urged to the work with a determination to succeed, and should rush to it without hallooing.
Sixth. The sharp-shooters
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Knoxville . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Jackson's Valley campaign of 1862 . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Gettysburg campaign --full report of General J. E. B. Stuart . (search)
State of Tennessee,
Was originally a part of North Carolina, and was claimed as a hunting-ground by the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Shawnees, and even by the Six Nations.
No tribe made it a fixed habitation excepting the Cherokees, who dwelt in the extreme southeast part.
Earl London, governor of Virginia, sent Andrew Lewis thither in 1756 to plant a settlement, and he built Fort Loudon, on the Tennessee River, about 30 miles from the site of Knoxville.
It was besieged by Indians in 1760 and captured, the inmates being murdered or reduced to captivity.
Armed men from Virginia and North Carolina retook the fort in 1761, and compelled the Indians to sue for peace.
Immigrants from North Carolina, led by James Robinson, settled on the Watauga River, one of the head streams of the Tennessee, in 1768.
It was on lands of the Cherokees, from whom the settlers obtained an eight-year lease in 1771.
They there organized themselves into a body politic, and adopted a code of laws signed by
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Tennessee, 1863 (search)
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14 : (search)