hio, General Burnside, was marching toward East Tennessee.
General Rosecrans was so confident of n August, that Burnside would move through East Tennessee with an effective force of twelve thousandashington, to Burnside on the march and in East Tennessee:
August 5th.—You will immediatelusand men by the most practicable route on East Tennessee, making Knoxville or its vicinity your objents of your troops.
As soon as you reach East Tennessee you will endeavor to connect with the forc another part of Ewell's corps has gone to East Tennessee.
The forces said to be collecting at Jonecan not hold Chattanooga, you can not hold East Tennessee, as that place threatens the gateway from retty certain that Ewell's corps has gone to Tennessee, and its probable object is Abingdon.
His fif he lost his position you could not hold East Tennessee in any event, and that if he held his posiduty it is to perform while it remains.
East Tennessee can be no more than temporarily lost so lo[9 more...]