The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Important from Tennessee.

Gen. Longstreet at Knoxville — Burnside Retreating — his Army demoralized--2,200 Yankees captured, &c.

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Atlanta, Nov. 20.

--Advices from the front represent that nothing more than the usual shelling has occurred since last report.

The Confederacy states that great destitution prevails at Chattanooga.

A special to the Intelligencer says considerable skirmishing has taken place at Nickajack Pass. The enemy has been driven back at that point.

The Appeal learns from Col. Chester that Gen. Longstreet had captured Knoxville, routing the enemy and taking 1,200 or 1,500 prisoners. One hundred and forty prisoners arrived on the same train with Col. Chester.

Gen. Wheeler is reported in the enemy's rear. General Longstreet is pressing their front.

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[Second Dispatch.]

--Gen. Wharton has returned from Richmond, promoted to the rank of Major General.

Gen. Cheatham has returned to the front. Gen. Buckner will go to the front in a few days.

Two hundred and thirty prisoners came down this evening. Many more are on the way down.

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[Third Dispatch.]

--An officer who left London on the 18th instant reports that Gen. Longstreet captured sixteen hundred Yankees, and Gen. Wheeler six-hundred, on that day, (18th.)

Gen. Longstreet was one mile and a half from Knoxville, entrenching.

In their retreat from London the Yankee army, about five thousand strong, (?) greatly demoralized. They left about one hundred wagons, loaded with commissary and ordnance stores, in the road.

Robinson's brigade left London yesterday to repair the pontoons left by the Yankees on the Little Tennessee, leading into Blount county.

Persons liberated at Chattanooga report great suffering and want of food and fuel at that place.

One hundred and thirty-six Yankees, forming Gen. Burnside's rear guard, reached Dalton last night. They say that Knoxville is another Harper's Ferry trap, and Burnside must evacuate.

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[Fourth Dispatch.]

--The Chickamauga train, due at 4 o'clock A. M., is just in, with upwards of 100 Yankees from Burnside's rear.

Officers from the front last evening report nothing more than the usual firing. There are indications of a movement of more than usual importance being now expected.