...63), relieved that place and Knoxville, which the Confederates were threatening. President Lincoln, who had daily, almost hourly, been telegraphing to him to remember Burnside, to do something for Burnside , besieged in Knoxville, was overjoyed. I wish, he wrote to Grant, to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks, my profoundest gratitude, for the skill, courage and perseverance...