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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
must inevitably make the former take to the mountain-passes by every available road, to get to his supplies. The whole campaign which followed could hardly be better deascribed than it was thus mapped out in advance. Sherman would have been here before this, but for high water in Elk river, driving him some thirty miles up that river, to cross. On the same day, he again telegraphed to Burnside: Can you hold the line from Knoxville to Clinton, for seven days? If so, I think the whole Tennessee valley can be secured from present danger. And again, at ten o'clock that night: It is of the most vital importance that East Tennessee should be held. Take immediate steps to that end. Evacuate Kingston, if you think best. As I said in a previous dispatch, I think seven days more will enable us to make such movements as to make the whole valley secure, if you hold on that time. On the 15th, he said again: I do not know how to impress on you the necessity of holding on to East Tennessee, i