University Depot
On the July 4, 1863 the 5th and 6th Kentucky Cavalry (US) moved toward University Place from Cowan. An advance of three companies
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November 28, 1863
Knox
As part of Confederate Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet’s strategy to capture Knoxville and drive the Union IX and XXIII Corps (Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside) from East Tennessee, his First Corps (Army of Northern Virginia) assaulted Fort Loudon (later named Fort Sanders) on November 28-29, 1863. The attack on the morning of November 29 was led by the Divisions of Maj. Gen. Lafayette McClaws and Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins. The federal garrison commanded by Brig. Gen. William Sanders (who was killed in the engagement) successfully repulsed the attacks due in large measure to effective defensive engineering installed by Captain Orlando Poe. Facing additional Union reinforcements from the South, Longstreet withdrew into winter quarters in the upper East Tennessee valley.
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On the July 4, 1863 the 5th and 6th Kentucky Cavalry (US) moved toward University Place from Cowan. An advance of three companies
As part of his expedition into West Tennessee to destroy the Mobile and Ohio railroad, Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s
Advancing from Florence, Alabama toward Nashville, Tennessee, two Confederate cavalry divisions under William Jackson and Abraham Buford marched up the old military