The Assault Upon Fort Sanders

The Assault Upon Fort Sanders is a Tennessee historical marker in Knox County.

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Four brigades of infantry, Gen. James Longstreet's first Corps, emerging from the declivity to the north, made a bayonet charge upon the Federal Fort Sanders at this point, at dawn, Nov. 29, 1863. They were stopped with the heavy causalities by a deep ditch and by ranking cannon fire. This climaxed Longstreet's siege of Knoxville.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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