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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 6: (search)
usand men by the most practicable route on East Tennessee, making Knoxville or its vicinity your objective point. * * * * You will report by the aid in your power. September 9th, Major-General Burnside, Knoxville. General Rosecrans is on the Chickamauga River, twenty mileWashington, D. C., September 21st., 2 A. M. To General Burnside, Knoxville: Go to Rosecrans with your full force without a moment's delanot wait a moment. A. Lincoln. September 27. To Burnside, at Knoxville. Your dispatch just received. My orders to you meant simply tleck will answer you fully. September 27. To General Burnside, Knoxville. It was suggested to you, not ordered, that you move to Rosecrever aiding Rosecrans. September 6th he telegraphed Halleck from Knoxville: We are making some movements to aid Rosecrans. A bearer ofavailable man in Kentucky to be sent down. On the 20th, from Knoxville: Dispatch of 18th received. You may be sure that I will do
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
subject. I judge from my conversation with him that he does not understand clearly how an army, large enough to make Longstreet's dislodgment certain, can be supplied while operating against Rogersville and Bristol, and accordingly I presume that, first, as soon as it is settled that he must be left in that region, you will be allowed to proceed south with the main body of your forces, leaving, of course, a sufficient number of troops to observe Longstreet, and prevent his getting hold of Knoxville, Cumberland Gap, or any other controlling point now in our hands. To my suggestion that the surest means of getting the rebels altogether out of East Tennesseee is to be found in the Army of the Potomac; the reply is, that that is true, but from that army nothing is to be hoped under its present commander. This naturally led to your second proposition, namely, that either Sherman or W. F. Smith should be put in command of that army. To this the answer is such as to leave but little do