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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14 : (search)
Chapter 14:
The Knoxville campaign
battle of Missionary Ridge
battle of Ringgold gap
retreat to Dalton
Gen. J. E. Johnston given command
close of 1863.
On November 3, 1863, General Bragg summoned Longstreet, Hardee and Breckinridge, then his infantry corps commanders, in consultation.
Longstreet had an inkling that it was proposed to send him against Burnside at Knoxville, Tenn. At a much earlier date he had advocated a campaign north of the Tennessee river, to compel the surrender of Rosecrans, but a division of the army at this later period did not appear to him as practicable.
The advance against Knoxville being decided on, Longstreet was given for the expedition his two divisions, McLaws' and Hood's, with Wheeler's cavalry, to which Buckner's division was added.
Ransom's Southwest Virginia division, mainly cavalry was ordered to co-operate.
It was ten days later before Longstreet was able to cross the Tennessee at Loudon and begin active field operations, a