, 1863-12-04
FROM KNOXVILLE.

fspecia) Dispatch to tho Chicago THbune.1
!. Cr7cmsA11, Dec :, 1868
Captain ". Anderson, Assistant Ad]utant
Gcurral, Department Of the Ohio, has received
the following official dispatch:
K.oxy111E, Nor. Goth,
VIA CC11cEHA.:D GAF, Dec I'd, ledS-
rbc cncny attacked us early this morning in force
but nc rcpulscd them with considerable loss All
Is well.
[s5sncd] a. E: buHSsnt,
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Trtbnne.]
KNOXVILLE, Noy. 80.
The rrcat rebel blow anxiously anticipated
20 long was struck yesterday morning: Re-
inforccd by the troops Of Sam. Jones, Jack
son and Williams, Longstree. sought to anni-
hi1ate tho Army of:thc Ohio By coup de gttr'r-
He selected seven picked regiments. skir~
miehing commenced on Sunday night at ten
o'clock. and continued sharply until near day
li.1,t Of Monday, o;= cnr left front before Fort
saurdcre, commanded by Gen. Ferrero and
defended by the 10Th New York, Benjamin s
81 U. s. Artillery, and Bue>ley's Rhode ISL
and hattcrr.
Our pickcts were driven IN, and the enemy
had 1,,.scsscd themselves Of some rlhe-plts
hut tho Massachusetts boys drove them
back, xhcu suddenly tic rebel storming par
ty, led By the 18th and 18th Georgia md 18th
Mississippi, under cover Of our own retrcat-
iur men came TO the assault
They approached to within one hundred
Yards Of the fort, unharmed. Then COM
uacnccd a series Of desperate and daring at'
| tacke, stubborn resistance, death, carnage
and horror, scarcely ceualled during the war
These men wcrc the Veterans OF the poto
mac-the flower Of Longstreet's army, and
confident of promised victory, plunged into
boiling he'll Of lead =
Wires 1aa been stretched from stump 70
stump in front Of the works, b.. Capt Poe
Owe. these tic advancing enemy fell in con
fused heaps, with the killed and wounded
around them.
Our artillery men hurled shell BY hand; for
ward, oycr the impedimcnte, came the doom
| cd rebels. Hot, and hotter, became the bat
! lie, until the ground orcr which they passed
] WIS carpeted with the elain. The ditch was
| piled with dead, wounded and dying.
| Not one on their side faltered-not a scors
| of the ga1lnnt stormcrs escaped The sun
rising, looked down through the cold mis-
and chill frost Of that November morning
! ......,. H. ,.orn osnr of m Nr1rr
One thousand, Killed, wounded and prison
e1s, was the cost of the assault Of Fort Saun
ders. Nobly has it sustained the reputation
Of its nanesake and reyengcd his fall
Among the killed is Col. GiEarde, Of the 1st1
Mass. Lieut. Col. o'Brien, the brother o
Mrs. Brownlow, is q prisoner.
Gen. Burnside offered them m armistlc
from 10 u. m. to p. m, to remove thei
wounded and bury their dead It vas &C
ccptcd.- The rebel officers and prisoners e1
press establishment at tho strength Of ou
works and the valor of our men.
/ Our loss will not reach eighty, all told
ovc, any Of these drc the men Of the .e7t'
Kentucky, captured on the south Of: th
rircr. >- 49,: ~. ..~
| Whether Longstrect is satisfied with th
imprcgmnility Of Knoxville, We know moi
hut awuit lis ncxt;movcment with conf
| dencc ....-:+ -:
Besides $50 prisoners, re hare three battl
fings, One Of them was planted on on
works ut ono time. g..
LATEN.
The t~c'rc days Of Longstreet be{or