, 1863-11-20
BurAside's Ad1anee Column
Driven in By the Enemy.
hN0KFiLLE CLOSELY INVEST
ED BUT TO Be DEFEND-
ED 70 THE LAST.
Heavy Fighting With
Severe Losses.
L0ngstreet Presses For
ward in Large Force.

hfo2vILLE, Nor. 10-The enemy coz
menced skirnishing On the Kingston road a
10 O'Clock this morning. Our advance, Mel
sons corps, composed wholly of mountc
infantry and cavalry, commanded the pos1
ton. under command OF Gen. Sanders, an,
zach man acted like veteran.
| At noon the enemy opened with artillor
at thort range, their batteries being proteste,
by large house.
Bepjanain'e battszy Has the oaly ono tha
rsplIed, occupying the chief fertilization, ,
mile in font Of the torn.
a despetute charge was made by the enc
my about 8 P. NJ Our men were protected
by rsi1 palisades on the c:cst of the hill
General sasaers Nas severely wounded, and
Was borne from the field.
We yielded the pesltiou and fell back .
th1ld Of mile to stronger one. We hare
lost about one hundred men, Of whom q
quarter were killed.
TIE encmy has completely invested this
I1ace, but General Durztide will defend 1t to
tito last mxr-,t is be,iaved snccossf,,,,
Tic troops aze In the bcet of spirits. Our
important point is fortified. and tho opinion
prevails that We ne sheu whip the enemy,
: KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nor. 17.-Gsn. Long.
Street, after crossing tie Tunnesseo River.
or Saturday morning, 18th Inst, was attack.
ed in the evening by Gen. Hurns,da who
dove the advance guard back to within q
nile Ct the rivers edge.
By n'ghtfall Longstreet crossed the re-
msirder Of hls troops, during the night AID
on Sunday morning advanced his force.
Gen. Burnside finding It impossible to conc
with him with the small force at his dfspo.
sal, fell back to Lenolre, the rear gusrd skfr,
mishir 6 heavily with the enemy th.oura tbe
cay. Three desperate charges were made
nPon cur pos1tion during Sunday night. Init
they were repulaed. On Moud.y mornin,
Gen Burnside eyacu.ted Leuolre. but oHinv
to- the energy with which the rebel nnr.uit
WAS kept up, determined to give them dc.
cided check. and accordine1y came fnto linz
Of battle at Campbe1l's Station. when a f1cbt
ensued, lasting from late In the afternoon
until dark.
Our first position commanded the road
from both sides tho infantry dan,orad j.,
ttont Of this and were soon attacked by tha
enemy, who made teyera1 gallant charges.
and finally succeeded, by outaankfnp our
men, in driving them to the cover OF the hit.
teries, which roU opened terrific ana d.
bt1uctiye fire.
The rebele retired before It give wav..ara
eventually feI back ~ iha river. It was nov
3 P. N. the rebels showing q desfrs tn re-
rew the attack, and having BROUGHT threa
batteries to their assistance, Gen. Bu1o.ide
fell back to q more desirable position aud
sgain gave them battle, which closed q.
rlghtfau with cur troops in possession Of
their own ground.
The object Of the fight having been obtain,
ed. and as the detention of the rebels had
enabled our trains to ret sll in advance. On,
troops fe1. back duripg the night, and early
Trctdsy morning reached Knoxville, where
q great battle Is expected to be fought to.
morrow.
Yesterday the rebel advance guard attack.
I'd Cur ont posts mon the T,oni7on and ct,n-
ton road, md heavy diminishing continued
IN day, This morning The attack Ea7 IA.
sumed.
Tho rebs1s, fn6ing it Impossible to drive
nur men with infa1try, brought several rnns
INTO position and poured in a linking f,r,
In the af,ernoon thew hronoh+ to~.,.Ss
teayfer f,rca Of infantry once more AID oft.r
80 A"AsA.t1 e"~o A4'4e' a.o %u1es
otis' shlfnea' eoA1geo our poeltaoo. a
erI1ic hand to lad conflict occurred.
Our men fought with the ereatest pa11ant.
- hnt ,ra .xara co,,,no11ed ~ f,i1 h.o1s 80.
=, wv ~ "~.e .oDpeso ~ 4A4 oacA aooot
talro OF m1e 10 Strong nne' which they
,o1d tonight.