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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 30 : Longstreet moves to Georgia . (search)
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 33 : the East Tennessee campaign. (search)
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Chapter 34: Besieging Knoxville.
Closing on the enemy's lines
a gallant dash
the Federal positions
Fort Loudon, later called FFort Sanders
assault of the Fort carefully planned
General McLaws advises delay
the order reiterated and emphasized
gallant effort by the b ault and the campaign.
The enemy's line of sharp-shooters and Fort Sanders stood in our direct line of advance,--the fort manned by the hea dquarters with orders from General Bragg that we should attack at Knoxville, and very promptly.
I asked him to make the reconnoissance and d it for a surrender.
From his first reconnoissance he pronounced Fort Sanders the assailable point, but, after riding around the lines with Ge officers, he came back to his conclusion in favor of assault at Fort Sanders.
I agreed with him that the field at Mabry's Hill was too wide, General Bragg, even if we should be successful in our assault on Knoxville.
If we should be defeated or unsuccessful here, and at the same
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 35 : cut off from East and West . (search)
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 36 : strategic importance of the field. (search)
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