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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Results of the battle of Manassas. (search)
nden, and gave up the contest. The report is, that Gen. Crittenden was in full retreat on the road leading to Knoxville, Tennessee, distant a hundred miles by road from Somerset; and the inference cannot be avoided that his army was much disorgaeus for a rally, and with a few batteries to make good a stand in the passes that occur so frequently along the road to Knoxville. A few artillery, one or two competent engineer officers, and another Brigadier-General in whom the troops have confidanger resulting from this defeat is the possibility that the enemy may be able to reach the railroad at some point near Knoxville, and cut off our communications with the Mississippi Valley. The imminence of this danger is fully appreciated by the is of his advance along the route of our own discomfited army, and of his reaching the railroad in the neighborhood of Knoxville; but this danger may be very easily guarded against. Unfortunate as this defeat is at this juncture, it may result
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Results of the battle of Manassas. (search)
all its artillery, baggage, and camp equipage, and leaving 500 in killed and wounded on the field. At last accounts, Gen. Crittenden was in full retreat on Knoxville. It is not stated whether or not the enemy was in pursuit. Somerset is situated in Pulaski county, Ky., and is, by an air line, about eighty miles Northwest of Knoxville, and miles probably over a hundred by the road hundred. The intervening country is mountainous, and might offer serious impediments to a pursuing force. The scene of the battle-field was North of the Cumberland river, which would interpose another obstacle to the advance of the enemy in case Gen. Crittenden land river, which would interpose another obstacle to the advance of the enemy in case Gen. Crittenden has destroyed the bridges over that stream. Of course it is to be supposed that he has done so. The route from Somerset to Knoxville, Tenn., does not run through Cumberland Gap or any of the avenues leading into Virginia.