NOVEMBER 16, 1863:
The
Battle of Campbell’s Station, Tennessee.
General James Longstreet’s
Confederates execute a forced march to take the crossroads town of Campbell’s
Station (now known as Farragut). Taking the town will allow the Confederates to
control all road (and rail) traffic in the Knoxville hinterlands, thus
dominating Knoxville. As soon as General Ambrose Burnside U.S.A. gets word of
the maneuver, he sends his own men racing for the town. They occupy it barely
fifteen minutes before the first of Longstreet’s men arrive. The Confederates
launch a spirited attack on the barely-anchored Federals, hoping to drive them
out of the town, but Burnside’s by now notorious mulishness pays off, as he
refuses to allow his troopers to withdraw. Longstreet is forced to break off. Union
casualties are 400 out of 5,000. The Confederates lose 600 of 5,000.
Campbell’s Station Inn was President Andrew Jackson’s
favorite hotel.
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