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December, 1863.
I will not undertake to give a detailed account of our march to Knoxville, for the relief of Burnside, and the return to Chattanooga.
We were gone three weeks, and during that time had no change of clothing, and were compelled to obtain our food from the corncribs, hen-roosts, sleep-pens, and smoke-houses on unter, at night-fall, near Graysville.
When General Grant called on us, unexpectedly and without due preparation, to march to Knoxville for the relief of General Burnside, you and your officers devoted yourselves to the work like soldiers and patriots, marching through cold and mud without a murmur, trusting to accidents for s e in excellent spirits.
Captain Wager inquired if they had heard from Knoxville.
O yes, they answered, General Longstreet has captured Knoxville and all of General Burnside's men.
Indeed, said the Captain; what about Chattanooga?
Well, we heard that Bragg had moved back to Dalton.
You have not heard, then, that Bragg was whip
Chapter 13:
Camp-life at headquarters near Culpepper Court-house.
ten days in Richmond.
return to headquarters.
a disagreeable journey.
Burnside's change of base.
headquarters near Fredericksburg.
description of the town.
danger of our English visitor.
opossum-hunting.
All was quiet next day at headquarters e was upon the eve of transferring his headquarters.
General McClellan had already, on the 7th of November, been superseded as Federal Commander-in-Chief by General Burnside, who, ambitious of a glory that in his wild dreams his exalted position seemed to promise him, and vehemently urged by the Government at Washington to rouse pid marches down the Rappahannock towards Fredericksburg, hoping to cross the river and occupy the town before Lee should be able to divine his intentions.
But Mr Burnside had not counted on the vigilance of Stuart's cavalry, the untiring activity of our scouts, and the promptness of decision that belonged to our noble leader; and
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 9 : the last review. (search)
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Early. (search)
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Mosby . (search)