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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864 , January
January 16.
General Sturgis's cavalry, in pursuit of General Longstreet, reached Dandridge, Tenn., thirty miles east of Knoxville, and drove the rebel videttes out of the town.
President Lincoln, in a note to the proprietors of the North-American Review, said:
The number for this month and year was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks.
Of course, I am not the most impartial judge; yet, with due allowance for this, I venture to hope that the article, entitled The President's Policy, will be of value to the country.
I fear, I am not quite worthy of all which is therein kindly said of me personally.
The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exactly as it is. In what is there expressed, the writer has not correctly understood me. I have never had a theory that secession could absolve States or people from their obligations.
Precisely the contrary is asserted in the inaugural address; and it was because o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864 , January
January 17.
This morning the rebels made a desperate attack upon the Union lines near Dandridge, Tenn. They threw out no skirmishers, but pressed down upon the Nationals in full force, seemingly determined to sweep them from the field.
Observing their desperate determination, General Sturgis ordered Colonel D. M. McCook, who was in command of a division of Elliott's cavalry, to charge the enemy on horse.
This order was obeyed most gallantly.
The charge of this division turned the fortunes of the day, which, up to this time, had been decidedly against the Nationals.
The First Wisconsin, which bore the brunt of the enemy's attack, lost sixty in killed and wounded.
The Union loss in all did not exceed one hundred and fifty.--A fire occurred at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., destroying the officers' quarters and quartermaster's stores.
Captain Dimon and Lieutenant Bennett, of the Thirty-eighth Illinois cavalry, were burned to death, and two other lieutenants were badly i