November 1, 1863---Longstreet goes to Knoxville

NOVEMBER 1, 1863:         

After The Richmond Examiner publishes a scathing editorial criticizing General Braxton Bragg for his failure to attack General Ambrose Burnside’s Union troops in Knoxville (carping that  “the hogs of East Tennessee, affording 25 millions of pounds of pork, are now being slaughtered for the Yankee armies,” and declaiming vociferously on the Southern army’s lack of shoes for their soldiers), Bragg, under pressure, sends the insubordinate petition-writing James Longstreet (and most of The Army of Tennessee) to operate against Burnside. There are skirmishes at Eastport and Fayetteville, Tennessee. A shrunken Confederate force remains near Lookout Mountain to harry the Union forces in Chattanooga.