The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-19
Gen. Burnside's East Tennessee
Observation-Disclosures Occu.
patton of the COuBtry-LOyalt
OF the PEOPLE.

General Burnside left Camp Nelson on
the 10th Of August for East Tennessee. He
left Crab Orchard on the 9th, having COM
pleted his preparations, his columns hay
ing been in motion for several days. He
reached Mount Vernon, 20 miles distant, on
the same day. He left Mount Vernon on
the 23d, and reached London, Is miles,
On the 24th he reached Williamsburg, 80
miles from London. Onthe 18th he reached
Chitwood, Tennessee, % miles southwest
of Williamsburg, where he came up with
Major General Hartsuff, commanding the
23d Army Corps. Major Emory here made
a cavalry reconnaissance toward Jacksbo-
no, encountered two regiments of rebel
cavalry, and routed them, taking forty-five
prisoners. Gen. Burnside, with the main
body Of his army, left Chitwood on the
2sth and reached Montgomery, the county
seat of Morgan county, Tennessee, AZ
miles from Chitwood, on the 30th. Here
another column of infantry, under General
julius White, came in, having marched
Monticello and Jamestown. Col. Burt,
commanding the cavalry advance, sent
word that the rebel General Pegram was
holding the gap in the mountains, near the
Emery Iron Works, with two thousand
men. The position was very strong one,
and the gap was the gate to the Clnch
River Valley. A battle was expected, as
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to check our forces. But in the morning
of the 3lst it was discovered the enemy had
fled in the night. At Emery Kivery, nine
miles east of Montgomery, Gen. Burnside
ordered Col. Foster to march directly on
Knoxville, where he arrived and took the
town without opposition on the LIST Septem-
Der. General Burnside proceeded to
Kingston, where his scouts encountered the
cavalry pickets of General Rosecrans, and
communicated with a splendid body ofcav-
airy of the Army of the Cumberland, I'M
der Colonel Minty. Burnside'sy object in
moving to Kingston was to make push
for the great Londen bridge, over the Hol-
ston River. This was twenty miles from
Kingston. General Shackelford was sent
to London. On his approach the rebels re,
treated across the bridge, which they had
been poured on the planks, and it was soon
mass of flames. Our troops fred across
the river with artillery and musketry, and
the people in the neighborhood said seve-
raj rebels were killed and wounded. Gen
eral Burnside left Kingston on the I'd and
entered Knoxville on the Sd. The recep-
ton of our troops at this place was most
gratifying. General Buckner with his rear
guard had left the day before Colonel Eos
ter's arrival, for Chattanooga. There is
| reason to believe Rosecrans had in front OF
him, at Chattanooga, the whole force OF
Buckner, Bragg and Johnston. The peo-
pie about Knoxville say the fight of the
rebels, when Burnside's approach was an
nounced, was something wonderful Their
panic was immense. They had among
them report that Burnside had an army
of from sixty to one hundred and twenty
thousand men, and were of the opinion
that their safety depended upon their speed
They left behind considerable quantity Of
Quartermaster's stores, in pretty good or
der, and they had several valuable shops
which they did not dismantle. Two mil.
lion rations of salt were among the spoils
The secesh had story that Longstreet was
coming from Virginia with twenty thou
sand men, but 1t was one OF their vain I'm.
aginings. a meeting Of the Union citizens