Blockhouses #4 & #5 Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad
Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies by J. Worth
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November 15, 1863
Loudon
Advancing towards Knoxville, on November 14-15, 1863 two Divisions (Brig. Gen. Michah Jenkins and Maj. Gen. Lafayette McClaws) of Maj. Gen. Longstreet’s Confederate army crossed a pontoon bridge on the Tennessee River at Huff’s (Hough’s) Ferry. On the evening of November 15, the Confederates encountered and skirmished with Union forces of the Army of the Ohio (Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside) at Lenoir’s Station. The engagements would eventually lead to the siege of Knoxville, November 19-December 4, 1863.
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Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies by J. Worth
On October 6, 1862 Union forces under Brig. Gen. John Palmer and Col. John F. Miller engaged Confederate cavalry commanded by Brig.
On December 31, 1862 the Union brigades of Col. Cyrus L. Dunham and Col. John W. Fuller attempted to prevent