The Assault Upon Fort Sanders

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THE ASSAULT

UPON FORT SANDERS

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 heavy casu-

alties by a deep ditch and by

raking cannon fire. This climaxed

Longstreet's siege of Knoxville.