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Campbell's Station
A village in Knox county, Tenn., 12 miles southwest of Knoxville, where on Nov. 16, 1863, the National army under General Burnside was attacked by a Confederate force under General Longstreet.
The engagement lasted from noon till dark, and resulted in the defeat of the Confederates.
The National force comprised portions of the 9th and 23d Corps, with cavalry.
Siege of Knoxville,
General Burnside, with the Army of the Ohio, occupied Knoxville, Sept. 3, 1863.
The Confederate General Buckner, upon his advance, evacuated east Tennessee and joined Bragg at Chattanooga.
Early in November, General Longstreet, with 16,000 men, advanced against Knoxville.
On the 14th he crossed the Tennessee.
Burnside repulsed him on the 16th at Campbell's Station, gaining time to concentrate his army in Knoxville.
Longstreet advanced, laid siege to the town, and assaulted it twice (Nov. 18 and 29), but was repulsed.
Meantime Grant had defeated Bragg at Chattanooga, and Sherman, with 25,000 men, was on the way to relieve Knoxville.
Longstreet, compelled to raise the siege, retired up the Holston River, but did not entirely abandon east Tennessee until the next spring, when he again joined Lee in Virginia.