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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Longstreet or search for Longstreet in all documents.
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The siege of Knoxville.
There is nothing really definite or reliable with reference to the operations of General Longstreet in East Tennessee.
It was yesterday stated on the street that information had been received that Gen. McLaw's division had made an assault on the enemy's works, and had been repulsed with severe loss.
The time at which the reported assault was made was not given.
The latest reliable intelligence received represents the siege as still progressing.
From Georges--Gen'l Longstreet's position. [from our Own Correspondent] Dalton, Ga., Dec. 6.
--There is nothing reliable from Longstreet's operations.
One account says his assault on Knoxville was unsuccessful, while another and later says that Burnside had suffered a disaster.
Communication is broken between here and Knoxville.
Two Federal corps have been sent toward Knoxville.
Another corps has been sent in an unknown direction.
All is quiet here.
Gen. Breckinridge rom Longstreet's operations.
One account says his assault on Knoxville was unsuccessful, while another and later says that Burnside had suffered a disaster.
Communication is broken between here and Knoxville.
Two Federal corps have been sent toward Knoxville.
Another corps has been sent in an unknown direction.
All is quiet here.
Gen. Breckinridge has not been suspended from command, but replaced (?) in command of the corps by Gen. Hindman, who has not yet arrived. Sallust.
The siege of Knoxville.
--A correspondent of the Atants Confederacy, writing from near Knoxville, on the 22d ult., gives the following about the investing of Knoxville:
Longstreet's forces completely invest the city, even so that a eat could not in or out without being seen by some one.
On the evening of the 20th our guns were put in position, with the intention of charging the depot and estopping the engines and cars that are there; but by some "devilish centric slight" they learned our intention, and set on fire seven large houses, as near as possible to their entrenchments and redoubts.
I was two miles from the city, and could easily read letters made with a pencil.
The night was very dark, and the effect of the conflagration was magnificent beyond description.
The wind was blowing southward, and great clouds of white smoke, bedecked with glowing cinders, rising to the height of two hundred feet from each building, were massed in one and blown to the South as far