January 15, 1864
---Gen. Grant, after having inspected Foster’s position, and
the nearly impossible situation in supplying Foster’s army, advises Gen.
Halleck that no offensive can be made from Knoxville until later in the
Spring. Grant also orders Gen. Sherman,
now back in Mississippi, to organize an offensive against Joe Johnston and his
small army in Meridian, Mississippi.
---Maj. Gen. John Parke, under orders from Gen. Foster, puts
his troops on the road headed east toward Dandridge, Tennessee, closer to
Longstreet’s Confederates. With Parke is
Gen. Samuel Sturgis, commanding the Army of Ohio’s Cavalry Corps, with three
small divisions of troopers.
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