... To Major General A. E. Burnside. On the 15th having received from the General In-Chief a dispatch of date of the 14th, in reference to Burnside's position, the danger of his abandonment of East Tennessee , unless immediate relief was afforded, and the terrible misfortune such a result would be to our arms; and also dispatches from Mr. C A Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, and Col Wilson, of my staff, ...