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Chapter VII
Condition of the troops at Knoxville
effect of the promotion of Grant and Sherman
letter to Senator Henderson
a visit from General Sherman
United with his other armies for the Atlanta campaign
comments on Sherman's memoirs
faulty organization of Sherman's army
McPherson's task at Resaca
McPherson's character
example of the working of a faulty system.
I arrived at Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 8, 1864, and the next day relieved General John G. Foster.
The troops then about Knoxville were the Ninth Corps, two divisions of the Twenty-third, and about one thousand cavalry and two divisions of the Fourth Corps; the latter belonged to the Department of the Cumberland, but had been left with General Burnside after the siege of Knoxville was raised by General Sherman.
The Ninth and Twenty-third Corps were reduced in effective strength to mere skeletons, the former reporting present for duty equipped only 2800 men, and the latter 3000 men; and these h