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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Official Dispatch from Knoxville . (search)
Official Dispatch from Knoxville.
The following official dispatch from Gen. Bragg was received at the War Department yesterday:
"Missionary Ridge, Nov. 23. "To Gen. S. Cooper:
"We hold all the roads leading into Knoxville except the one between the Holston and French broad rivers.
Gen. Jones's cavalry might close that.
The enemy's cavalry is almost broken up, and Wheeler has cut off his train from Cumberland Gap to Knoxville. Braxton Bragg, Gen'l."
The road mentn. Jones's cavalry might close that.
The enemy's cavalry is almost broken up, and Wheeler has cut off his train from Cumberland Gap to Knoxville. Braxton Bragg, Gen'l."
The road mentioned in Gen. B.'s dispatch leads from Knoxville eastward to the Warm Springs, in Western North Carolina, and thence to Ashville, N. C. Over this road Burnside has heretofore sent several raiding parties into Western North Carolina, one of which was met and repulsed at the Warm Springs by Gen. Vance.
Latest from the North.
We have received Northern papers of Saturday, the 21st inst., through the courtesy of the officers of the Exchange Bureau.
The news, save that from Knoxville, is not of much interest.
Latest from Burnside's Army — the Yankees Driven into Knoxville and the place invested.
The news from Knoxville is interesting, and confirms the intelligence which has been received in dispatches from Gen. Bragg.
We give in full the following telegrams from Knoxville:
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1863. --Gen. Long-street, after crossing the Tennessee on Saturday morning, 14th inst., was attacked in the afternoon by Gen. Burnside, who drove the advance guard back to within a mile of the river's edge by nightfall.
Longstreet crossed the remainder of his troops during the night, and on Sunday morning advanced in force.
Gen. Burnside, finding it impossible to cope with him with the small force at his disposal, fell back to Lenoir, the rear guard skirmishing