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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 12: (search)
. For several weeks bare existence in the camp was very precarious, from want of provisions and forage. Regiments frequently subsisted on one third rations, and this very frequently of bread alone. Wayne County, which was alone productive in this region of Kentucky, had been exhausted, and the neighbouring counties of Tennessee could furnish nothing to the support of the army. The condition of the roads and the poverty of the intervening section rendered it impossible to transport from Knoxville, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles. The enemy from Columbia commanded the Cumberland River, and only one boat was enabled to come up with supplies from Nashville. With the channel of communication closed, the position became untenable without attack. Only corn could be obtained for the horses and mules, and this in such small quantities that often cavalry companies were sent out on unshod horses which had eaten nothing for two days. On the afternoon of the 18th of January a c
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 19: (search)
baggage train, which necessarily moved across the country by land. A conference was held here with Gen. Kirby Smith, commanding the Department of East Tennessee; and it was soon determined that all his force should be used to operate upon the enemy's left at Cumberland Gap, and he was requested to confer with Brig.-Gen. Humphrey Marshall, commanding in Southwestern Virginia, with whom he was already in correspondence, to secure his co-operation also in the movement. After returning to Knoxville, Gen. Smith asked for further assistance and two fine brigades, under Brig.-Gen. P. R. Cleburne and Col. Preston Smith were sent to him, in addition to the division which had gone from Tupelo. The remainder of Bragg's immediate command, the Army of the Mississippi, divided between Maj.-Gen. Polk and Hardee, made every preparation, and awaited only its baggage train and artillery to cross the Tennessee River, and enter upon its arduous and perilous campaign over the mountains dividing Eas
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 27: (search)
nd, was in a position, by an advance towards Knoxville, to threaten his rear. In July, Gen. Bragg n. Burnside, entered Tennessee, and occupied Knoxville on the 2d September. A large part of these s last instructions were to hold the Gap. Knoxville had at this time been abandoned; and Gen. Bu at Loudon, about thirty miles southwest of Knoxville, at the crossing of the Holstein or Tennesse Kentucky Road, running through the Gap from Knoxville into Kentucky; and the Harlan Road, leading informed that the enemy was in possession of Knoxville, and had started a heavy force towards the G of the enemy would be sent against him from Knoxville until after successful engagement with Gen. to meet the force said to be advancing from Knoxville, engage it, and uncover its strength. This an uninterrupted line of communication from Knoxville to Chattanooga, and opened the way to the coand a brigade of his cavalry; came down from Knoxville to Loudon and Cleveland. A council of war
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 28: (search)
street from Bragg's front to operate against Knoxville. this unfortunate movement the work of Prest of Burnside. his unsuccessful assault on Fort Sanders at Knoxville. he retreats to Rogersville, Knoxville. he retreats to Rogersville, is cut off from Virginia, and spends the winter in North-eastern Tennessee. operations in Virginiaggold, and on all the road from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these insurmountable difficulties were ckamauga. He planned the expedition against Knoxville. He was in furious love with the extraordinurnside was instructed to lure Longstreet to Knoxville, and retire within his fortifications, wherertillery. Longstreet's expedition against Knoxville We have seen that in the beginning of Novn despatched by Bragg up the valley towards Knoxville, where Burnside was operating. A part of thht of two miles ensued, and Burnside reached Knoxville at daylight the next morning; Longstreet advl near the Kingston road was a work, called Fort Sanders, which commanded the approaches to the town[5 more...]
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 32: (search)
tragical circumstances which suddenly and unexpectedly brought to a close the career of this extraordinary man, and which constitute a case of atrocious murder, unparalleled in the records of any events which assume the title of civilized war. Driven from Kentucky, Gen. Morgan attempted a smaller scale of operations in East Tennessee, and was next heard of near Greenville. He was here on the 3d September; the place lying on the great line of railroad from Virginia to Georgia by the way of Knoxville, and nineteen miles distant from Bull's Gap, where Gen. Gillem was encamped with a brigade of Federal cavalry. What now occurred, it is necessary to state with more particularity of detail than we have usually bestowed on the relation of single events, as the manner of Gen. Morgan's death has been variously questioned, the enemy claiming that lie was killed in honourable combat. The General established his headquarters at the house of a Mrs. Williams, in the town of Greenville. His o