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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785878303321

Autore

Hess Earl J

Titolo

The Knoxville Campaign [[electronic resource] ] : Burnside and Longstreet in east Tennessee / / Earl J. Hess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-61098-1

9786613923431

1-57233-924-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/3

Soggetti

Knoxville (Tenn.) History Siege, 1863

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

United States History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Burnside and East Tennessee -- Turn Around -- Lenoir's Station -- Campbell's Station -- Sanders Buys Time -- Siege -- Search for a Solution -- Fort Sanders -- Relief -- Break Away -- Bean's Station -- Longstreet in East Tennessee -- Orders of Battle -- Appendix A: The Forts of Knoxville -- Appendix B: Knoxville's Civil War Legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

"Hess's account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent." -Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the WestIn the fall and winter of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside and Confederate General James Longstreet vied for control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that link