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.
