num_pages: 142
description: In this book noted local Civil War historian Gerald L. Augustus offers a fresh and comprehensive analysis of the Battle of Campbells Station. Relying on primary sources newly constructed maps and his own keen knowledge of the battle terrain Augustus provides an almost hour by hour accounting of the decisions movements and encounters that made up this significant battle. Along the way he includes three excurses that provide helpful background for understanding the battle as well as its consequences in human terms and three appendices that provide the order of the battle as well as casualties for both Union and Confederate Armies. This mid-November 1863 drama involved Union General Ambrose Burnside with some 5000 men desperately trying to retreat to Knoxville from opposite Loudon Tennessee. In close pursuit was Confederate General James Longstreet with nearly 12000 troops intent on either capturing or destroying Burnsides immediate command and then recapturing Knoxville. Burnside would win the race to junction of Kingston Road and Lenoirs Road but the fighting known as the Battle of Campbells Station would move eastward for over two miles and last from about 9.00 am until after dark. Burnsides forces would again slip into the dark and continue on to Knoxville and successfully defend the city until reinforcements arrived.
language: English
title: The Battle of Campbell's Station
publisher: Cherohala Press