The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 December 1913 — Page 4

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"- "" - - "— ■ = ~ The War Fifty Years Ago Events In East Tennessee —Confederates at the Gates of Knoxville—Federal Garrison Menaced by Starvation — General Longstreet’s Corps Conducts the ! Siege—General W. T. Sherman Hastens From Chattanooga With Re-enforcements For the Defenders. Lack of Official News Befogs the Leaders— Longstreet Abandons the Siege—The Federal Monitor Weehawken Sinks In Charleston Harbor.

By Clot. GEORGE U KILMER. Lite U.fL V.

iITE first week in December fifty years ago was fraught with war excitement in the valley of the Tennessee. The Com

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federate siege of Chattanooga had come to an end the 28th of November with the besieging army under General Braxton Bragg routed and hastening south to Dalton. Ga. Grant's victory at Chattanooga left him with a good 60,000 effectives free to engage in other enterprises. Vp the Tennessee valley a hundred miles General A. E. Burm side was besieged at Knoxville with 12,000 men, confronted by 20,000 under General James Longstreet. Grant had been urged for weeks to give help to Burnside. Finding that

® /-i W I GENERAL E. BURNSIDE, U. S. A.. AND GENERAL WT. SHERMAN, U. S. A-, PRINCIPALS IN TIIS DEFENSE GF KNOXMLLE.

Bragg was well out of the way, he recalled the army of General W. T. Sherman from the pursuit of the retreating Confederates to turn about and make a rapid march to Knoxville. The corps of General Gordon Granger, 20,000 strong, had two days’ start of Sherman on a similar errand. But Granger’s march was retarded by the necessity of guarding supplies of ammunition and rations for the campaign which moved by boat up the Tennessee. Burnside had been apprised of the defeat of Bragg at Chattanooga and that help from the victorious armies would come to his aid by forced marches. Sherman started the 28th and two days later picked up Granger’s column, and the united forces made all haste to cover the eighty-four miles intervening before Burnside should yield On the 29th Burnside had passed the crisis of a bold assault upon the key to his position. Fort Sanders. His troops* however, must still look hunger in the face. They had rations to Dec. 3 only. Acting In the Dark. • ’ Sherman received no news from ! Knoxville direct and did not learn of ’ tile repulse of Longstreet’s attack at ’ Fort Sanders. Neither did Longstreet > hear promptly of Bragg’s defeat and of • the march northward of Sherman’s col- . umn. Some of Longstreet’s subordi- • nates urged that another attempt be ; made to conquer Fort Sanders. The • suggestion was dropped, and Longi street decided to continue the siege 1 until a favorable opportunity arrived i to return to Bragg’s lines at Chattanooga. i Meanwhile Sherman was hastening forward, and his movements would ’ deride all. MidwxT of his march he fouuH. that brigade i which Longstreet’s rear guard J had destroyed the bridge at Loudon, ■ and he could not cross the main Ten- ■ uessee short of Knoxville. This would s necessitate a wide detour to the east, i About this time he received word that on Nov. 27 Burnside had rations to last until Dec. 3, and if not relieved by that ■ date must surrender. ■ This message from Burnside came to Sherman byway of Chattanooga. It » had been sent from Knoxville byway ! of Louisville and Nashville. On the I other hand Longstreet’s first news of ! the defeat of Bragg at Chattanooga 1 reached him from Richmond by tele- | graph and courier over the Blue Ridge | mountains. 2 When Sherman found the bridge i gone at Loudon he sent a mounted s messenger post haste on a forty mile j ride to notify Burnside that he would a surely reach Knoxville with re-enforce-i ments on Dec. 3. The message ar3 rived on time, and its coming was 9 simultaneous with that of intelligence 3 for Longstreet to the same effect, i Sherman with 40,000 was between his 20.000 and the camp of Bragg at Dal- " ton, Ga., 120 miles distant Sherman’s March Delayed. Had Knoxville’s fate depended on Sherman’s arrival on the 3d the place, together with Burnside’s army, would have been doomed. Sherman expected

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to cross Little Tennessee river, which lay in his psithway, by fords. But when he arrived there he found the stream 240 feet wide ami from two to five' feet in depth. i' t,e water ax as fretting cold, and a new bridge was indispensable. The morning of Dec. 5 one corps was safely across when the bridge broke, causing further delay. However, Sherman's advance was within twenty milt's of the beleaguered city and Burnside knew of its proximity. Longstreet knew it. too, and, although an angry riter rolled between him and the new enemy, he decided to raise the siege and take his A irginia troops back to Lee's camps on the Rapidan. This was a bold project, in

itself too bold in fact to be carried out at the opening of winter. Sherman was marching up the east side of the Holston (or Tennessee) river, expecting to find a bridge at Knoxville by which he could cross. He practically shut Longstreet off from a direct route south to Bragg's camp. On the northwest there was a strong Federal force holding Cumberland gap. Some route north or northeast was Longstreet's only choice if he ’wished to avoid battle. Longstreet Abandons the Siege. Breaking camp silently the night of the 4th, the Confederates marcht'd around Knoxville and by the night of the Sth had made eighteen miles in

Copyright by Patriot Publishing company. GENERAL W. J. HARDEE, C. S. A., GRANT'S NEW OPPONENT, AND GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET, C. & A., LEADER OF THE SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE.

the direction of the Virginia border. On the 6th the march was extended fifteen miles farther. It rained steadily; the nights were pitch dark and roads, deep with mud. Not until the 6th/ when Longstreet was over thirty miles! away, did Sherman reach Knoxville’ In person. His troops were several hours behind. It was too late to Intercept or overtake the Confederates. Both Burnside and Sherman were glad to let well enough alone. They had saved Knoxville. For this achievement they received the congratulations of Grant and the war department, who considered it a fitting climax to the recovery of Chattanooga. The people of the north rejoiced over what was called a double victory. Sherman returned to Chattanooga, with his own troops. Campaign Plans. General Burnside was relieved of the lommand < f the Army of the Ohio soon »fter the redemption of Knoxville. His

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- 4 command marched slowly in pursuit of Longstreet atid the garrisoning of Knoxville was assigned to 'General Granger’s command. A few days after the siege of Knoxville was broken anxiety as to the fate of East Tennessee was revived in Washington. Grant himself began to preimre for another campaign to dispose of Longstreet. The attempt of * the latter to take Knoxville had grown ; out of a project which he had advocated immediately after the battle of Chickamauga. The battle of Chickamauga, in Sejxtember, had left the Fed eral army under General W. S. Rose criths in possession of Chattanooga Bragg, with the victorious army at Chickamauga, confronted Roseerans, but he hesitatcHl about attacking the position. Longstreet then urged Bragg to march a strong column around Chattanooga into Tennessee. Such a move would, flank Rosecrans and foive him to abandon Chattanooga. Bragg ridiculed the idea, but President Davis approved of it. After a month of delay Longstreet was dispatched with his own corps to pass around the rear of the Federals in Chattanooga and strike at Knoxville. Though defeated there, he was still to be reckoned with, Bragg Removed From Command. On Dee. 2 General Bragg laid down the command of the Confederate army which had been driven from Chattanooga to Dalton. He had Uvu ordered to report tor other duties at the seat of the Confederate government in Richmond. General W. J. Hardee, one of the corps commanders, was appointed to succeed him. Bragg left to General Hartlee an army that needed reorganization from the ranks upward, it was not in condition for an immediate campaign and had the good fortune to be outside the sphere of new operations projected by Grant. Nevertheless Grant took it into account in bis plans, for it had lighting ■qualities and under bold leadership might attempt to reverse his victories at Vicksburg and Chattanooga. Longstreet believed that it could regain ground lost in Tennessee and so long as he remained west of the Blue Ridge he would be in position to co-operate. Loss of the Monitor Weehawken. On Dec. G, 18GG. occurred the greatest disaster sustained by the Federal fleet during, its protracted siege of Charleston. This was the sudden sinking at anchorage of the monitor Weehawken. This vessel was of the general type of the original monitor which fought the Confederate ram Merrimac. ‘ Greater depth of hull and more powerful engines placed her in the seagoing class of vessels. The Weehawken was one of several duplications in form of the first creation made by Captain John Ericsson after the model had accomplished wonders in battle with the Merrimac in Hampton Roads. “A tloating turret” was the term usually used to distinguish these irenclads from the conventional type of warship. The Weehawken had proved in many storms that she could float and in many battles that her turret equipment could do execution. After her first storm the commander, Captain John Rodgers, reported that she rose and sank with the waves. The Weehawken went down in a hurricane, carrying to the bottom thirty of her crew who were- in different parts of the vessel. Openings for

egress were few and narrow, and the sinking was without warning. The first monitor went down in a storm, but that occurred at sea after a prolonged battle with the elements. The Weehawken lay in twenty feet of water and had on board a full supply of coal and ammunition. Incessant pounding of the waves caused a rupture where the hull and overhanging deck joined. Through the openings heavy seas poured in and swamped her. In the audacious fleet attack on Fort Sumter in April. 1863. the Weehawken led and received the first shots from the foe. She was hit fifty-three times and emerged from the conflict with a leaking deck, riddled smokestack and turret all but useless. Later she captured the powerful Confederate ironclad Atlanta after firing four shots. In the bombardments of Sumter and other forts during the summer and fall the Weehawken had been conspicuous. In one attack on the forts she survived a torpedo explosion against the hull.

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