Posted on 12/04/2023 7:02:39 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
KNOXVILLE, Monday, Nov. 30.
During Saturday night, Nov. 28, the enemy made a general attack in force on a large portion of our skirmishing line, and about midnight succeeded in driving in our pickets. This was intended as a defat, to confuse us, and conceal the real point of the contemplated assault. Cannonading and skirmishing continued all night.
Early in the morning the enemy charged in strong force upon Gen. FERRIOR's position, Fort Saunders. They were met midway by a murderous discharge of grape and canister, and the steady fire of the rifle-pits, under which they faltered and finally fell back in broken fragments, leaving two Colonels, several Captains, and in all, over one hundred dead on the field. A considerable force reached the foot of the parapets, only to tumble into a ten feet ditch surrounding the fort, where the wounded, and dead, and living were piled in an undistinguishable mass. We captured 234 prisoners. The enemy's loss is not far from 700 in the assault, the Union loss less than 25.
Gen. BURNSIDE humanely offered a truce to Gen. LONGSTREET until 5 P.M., to afford time for the removal of the enemy's wounded and burial of the dead, which was agreed to, and afterward extended two hours. The wounded were brought into our hospitals, and conveyed on our ambulances to the enemy's line. Three stand of colors were captured. This (Monday) morning it is clear and freezing weather, with quiet around the line.
LOUISVILLE, Thursday, Dec. 3.
The midnight special to the Journal says: "Gen. WILCOX telegraphed Gen. BURNSIDE, Knoxville, on Nov. 30, that at 11 o'clock on the evening of the 20th, the rebels attacked our force, and succeeded in driving our skirmishing line to the right on the Kingston road and forced it
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