Tuesday, January 14, 2014

December 6, 1863


December 6, 1863


---On this date, Gen. Sherman and his column of 25,000 men in blue, marching to relieve Burnside besieged in Knoxville, arrive at that city, and Sherman is surprised to find that the Federal garrison there is not in dire straits, nor are they close to starvation. 

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