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If Rosecrans were at Rome, as General Crittenden's dispatch indicated, he was more than a hundred and seventy miles distant from Knoxville, and nearly three hundred miles from the region about Greeneville and the Watauga River, whose crossing would be the natural frontier of the upper valley, if Burnside should not be able to extend his occupation quite to the Virginia line.
Making use of the portion of the railroad which could be operated, Burnside reached Greeneville on the 18th and rode rapidly to Jonesboro.
We therefore spent three or four days in vigorous efforts to gain information of the enemy by means of our cavalry. We learned that Longstreet held the line of Bays Mountain, where the railway passes through Bull's Gap, thirteen miles above Morristown. His right flank seemed to be at Rogersville on the Holston, and his left rested near the Nolachucky beyond Greeneville.
This message was intrusted to John Davis and two other young men of his company, who rode through a fearful storm, picking their way by the lightning-flashes and arriving there some time before midnight. Other messages were probably sent to Gillem that night from Greeneville, but this was the first received. The report usually given in the histories to the effect that Mrs.
After a good deal of difficulty an academy was organized under the title of Blount College, and was opened as soon as a sufficient number of pupils could be gotten together; there were already two other colleges in the Territory, Greeneville and Washington, the latter being the academy founded by Doak. The ordinary books were still school books, books of law, and sermons or theological writings.
In after years the stones disappeared, and a monument was erected on the spot in 1841, in honor of the Narragansett sachem. It is a large, square block of granite with the name and the date carved upon it, "MIANTONOMO, 1643." It can be seen to-day in Greeneville, two miles from Norwich.
It was the part of prudence to act upon this information, and Burnside ordered all his infantry except one brigade to march toward Greeneville.
Considerable loss had been inflicted on the enemy and 150 prisoners had been captured, but no decisive engagement had been brought about, Jones being wary and conscious of inferiority of force. Willcox was left at Greeneville with part of the cavalry, while Burnside brought back the Ninth Corps to Knoxville.
The mountain coves and nooks far up toward the Virginia line had been among the most intense in loyalty to the nation. Andrew Johnson's home was at Greeneville, and he was now the loyal provisional governor of Tennessee, soon to be nominated Vice-President of the United States.
Organizing and arming the loyalists Burnside concentrates near Greeneville His general plan Rumors of Confederate reinforcements Lack of accurate information The Ninth Corps in Kentucky Its depletion by malarial disease Death of General Welsh from this cause Preparing for further work Situation on 16th September Dispatch from Halleck Its apparent purpose Necessity to dispose of the enemy near Virginia border Burnside personally at the front His great activity Ignorance of Rosecrans's peril Impossibility of joining him by the 20th Ruinous effects of abandoning East Tennessee Efforts to aid Rosecrans without such abandonment Enemy duped into burning Watauga bridge themselves Ninth Corps arriving Willcox's division garrisons Cumberland Gap Reinforcements sent Rosecrans from all quarters Chattanooga made safe from attack The supply question Meigs's description of the roads Burnside halted near Loudon Halleck's misconception of the geography The people imploring the President not to remove the troops How Longstreet got away from Virginia Burnside's alternate plans Minor operations in upper Holston valley Wolford's affair on the lower Holston.
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