Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12
A S~ANGUINARY SIEGE.


CEN. LONGSTREET,S ATTACK UPON
Xr.e 1NoxNu
roh'
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Dne of the Hardest Fights of the war
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graph Wire Strung Along the
A Fearful Slaughter.
ifGen. Loagstreet hauhb Diunaeredlh m
attacKing tne Iortincatloh apou5
IN November, 1908, ana. q
assalied any one OF the otner delenses, luz
likely that the history OF thes war IN east
tennessee would nave Ken on very
diliesent color than n historians now
give IT.
Early In November burnside Learned
that Longstreet was en- route from Chat-
tanooga TO KNOXVILLE, and, Ike Davld, ne
went u TO meet MIN, ana, unlike the
slayer OF the Phliistines, ne came hastiiy
oack, licked. he hao mel Longstreeta az
ampDeiI statlon, a Few mics
OF Knoxville, and linen iost no Time
IN reachlng ms
ters. MAI fioxle, VINO Is now q proml-
nent business was tnen
the superintendent ana general manager
OIL Inc East tennessee rnllroad, told me uhe
other day that burnside came 10 MN
mediately on MS return II salo; "fou
have about forty cars mere at your dls-
posal, four engines. want you 10
place QUICK omDuslpies under every one
OF those cars n De ready 10 touch a
match tosthem at Q moments warning"
Gen. Burnslde,s paymaster mad JUST re-
celved apouG 4,OO,oW IN anu
n were all stored IN an olu pulalnR,
which nov stand on Gay street. from
MAJ. hoxie the general optalned a guam
tlty OF turpentlne ana stored IL near TINS
wealth., with nstructlons 10 saturate
and ignite the minute Longstreet entered
SAVED By
AT the same tlme the people OF the CITY
We're moi lale. Az the nght on Malvern
hills, IN Virginia, Iongstreethad captured
from Mcclellan aUU shoveis n sent them
up TO Ihe ConIeaerate govern
menu subsequently soiu snese luenslcal ooo
shovels 10 the president OF tne East Ienhes-
see, ne turned them over TO the custody
OF NAL. Hox1e, Whohad Them stored IN THIS
Guy. Ihey were the cry 5 salvatlon. Had
Longstreet thrown them into the James
River could not have been for-
tlhea, and would either nave
been captured or nave up 10
the Potomac army. every man VINO cou!d
nandle q PICK OF snoVel, soiuier ana CIVIL
ian alke-and Ihere were mlght rev
clVlllaps IN east tennessee curing 1he war
was at WORK.
Fort Saunders was erected IN o nlght.
hlhe-plts anu eafth-WofKs surrounded
hnoxyllle, n IN less IMAM seventy-two
u Burnside from ms headquarters on
Gay stree1s coulu by WIRE 20
Q half a dozen different garrlsons. Fort
n was commanded py ten.
Feraro, Who before the war was a French
daDclng-master. In TINS lori the llnks
uniting the cars which burnside wanted
Hoxle TO be ready TO burn, were buried.
The manager was a railroad man, and
knew that the cars without links We're as
useless as cars without wheels, and SO
LOOK TINS precautlon 20 disable rather n a
oestroy.
TR1PPED BY WIRE.
Fort was byfar the strongest
OF ansthe Iortlhcatlons, ana ~ was against
" That laongstreet made his fatal charge
m gong over The round and through tae
toft 5to-us.y, maj. 1oAle sad; SssI
tnefe, pointing 70 some woods a mile OF
more away, was here llopgstreet formed.
Inns open neid, Which now lles pefore us
was then covered With underbrush stumps
ana fallen trees. At my suggestion a loi
OF gelegraph wires, when | q Iurnisned
mao peen strung all along through the neld
Lora quarter OH mile, n nlty or Sixty
Ieeu away ironl the rlne PITS IL was
Strung ABOUT 1901 from the round JUS
Mgh enough 20 eaten MAJ on his Sims,
me GonIeuerates came margin up thal
neid Justat daylignt. Ihey a planneo
70 getln nehWeeh the range OF u guns
terry of which they were ignorant, and
then when they struck that wire they
tumbled one over the other almost panic.
stricken. The sensation of being thur