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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
of which East Tennessee was the theatre during the last days of the year 1863. General Parke, Burnside's chief of staff, set out on the 7th to follow up Longstreet with detachments of the Ninth and the Twenty-third corps, under the orders of Generals Potter and Manson. He is preceded by Shackelford's cavalry division, which recrossed on the 5th to the right bank of the Holston. On his side, Elliott, in pursuance of Grant's orders, proceeds from Alexandria to Kingston, where he will meet Spears' brigade, that is ascending the right bank of the Tennessee. But his march is delayed, and he joins the Army of the Ohio only in the middle of the month of December. In fine, Willcox, who occupies Cumberland Gap and its approaches with the Fourth division of the Twenty-third corps and three thousand horse under Garrard and Graham, has not lost an instant in trying to break, on the north side, the investment of Knoxville. His cavalry encamps at the foot of the mountain on the banks of Powe