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who seems to have pressed them heavily on the whole retreat. Here, according to the writer, thus lost 384 men, exclusive of the cavalry losses, which had not been reported. On the night of the 17th Burnside reached Knoxville, and at 11 o'clock next morning Long street's forces were deployed on the Kingston road and opened fire. Desultory artillery firing continued until 3 o'clock in the day, when a brigade of Confederates advanced and drove the Federal from Tape Hill. It was here that Gen. Sanders, the Yankee commander, was killed. The Yankee loss in that affair is put down at 200. That whole night was spent by Burnside in cutting down trees, erecting barricades, digging rifle pits, and throwing up breastworks, the city being but very slenderly fortified when Longstreet appeared before it, and there only being a barricade of rails on the London road. He was not disturbed in his work. Writing on the 19th, the correspondent says: The morning was smoky, so that little could b