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with the Fourth Corps off soon enough for Knoxville, and that Sherman must turn north at once, or Burnside would be overwhelmed by Longstreet. Sherman answered: Why not send Howard with me? Grant, on receiving Sherman's reply, so ordered it. I was as badly off for transportation and supplies as Granger; but it was another opportunity. With our respective corps Sherman and I marched immediately toward Knoxville; we were about five miles apart, Sherman always east of me. At the Hiwassee River, Hoffman (my engineer) and I, one day just before sunset, stood by the bank in the village of Athens, Tenn. The bridge was gone. How long, Hoffman, will it take you to build a bridge here I asked. He scratched his head for a moment and then said: It is over 200 feet; I can have a good bridge practicable for the men and the wagons in ten days. Ten days I cried. Why, Hoffman, we will cross that river at sunrise to-morrow Impossiblel he exclaimed with impatient emphasis. Yet, by