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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
ting him to start for Chattanooga, without losing a moment, with such troops as he had around him. He made ready to obey, but only after having attacked the enemy on the following morning at daybreak, so as to destroy, if that were possible, the bridge at Watauga. The Confederates, apprised of his arrival, saved him this trouble. They evacuated their works in the night and burned the bridge. While Foster's brigade, despatched in pursuit of the Confederates, was coming up with them near Blountsville and capturing, together with one cannon, some sixty prisoners, Burnside, thenceforth undisturbed on that side, was finishing the destruction of the bridge and resuming the road to the south. Thanks to the railway, he arrived on the 23d at Morristown, where he encountered the head of the column of the Ninth corps coming down from Cumberland Gap. On the 24th he was at Knoxville: there he heard news of the battle lost four days previously by Rosecrans on the banks of the Chickamauga. Th
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
rged his infantry no farther. But Shackelford closely pursued Williams, and, crossing the Watauga, attacked Ransom at Blountsville on the 14th. After a feeble resistance the Confederates fell back on the station named Union or Zollicoffer, which thwas placed in reserve at Greenville, and he despatched two regiments, under Colonel Garrard, to hold at Rogersville the Kingsport and Knoxville road. The two routes which led into Southern Virginia were thus closed. On the 16th the pass of Paint arrard's command, which is encamped somewhat to the eastward on the Big Creek. Giltner will cross the North Holston at Kingsport in order to attack the Federals in front. They will make a simultaneous assault on the enemy on the 6th of November. s. General White of the Twenty-third corps, who is charged with watching the course of the Tennessee between London and Kingsport, occupies each of these towns with a brigade. The cavalry that was watching Philadelphia has been recalled from the le