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Tag Archives: Battle of Fort Sanders
“…the only real night charge we ever made.”
Two of the Mississippi Brigade’s regiments, the 18th and the 21st, were charged with driving in the Union pickets the night before the dawn assault on Fort Sanders by the 17th and 13th regiments. After the war, 18th regiment Captain … Continue reading
Second Michigan at Fort Sanders
“The hardships and privations of the siege were very great, the men suffering especially from want of sufficient food and clothing… “Four companies of the Second Michigan, A, H, G and F, in command of Captain Emil Moores, occupied a … Continue reading
Reenactor anachronisms
The rifled parrott gun in this mock Northwest Bastion of a pretend Fort Sanders (miles away from where the original sat) is just one of the anachronisms the reenactor community puts up with. The only big guns in the bastion … Continue reading
“Every day of delay…”
One key officer in Longstreet’s command at Knoxville was Col. Edward Porter Alexander, his chief of artillery. It’s interesting that Alexander’s pre-attack artillery barrage at Knoxville was no more successful than the more famous and larger one which he orchestrated … Continue reading
Crowded Camp Chase
Union prison Camp Chase, just west of Ohio’s state capital of Columbus, where some of the Rebs captured at Fort Sanders spent the rest of the war—or, in some cases, their lives. Commissioned and non-commissioned officers got the wooden barracks … Continue reading
View of College Hill
Post-battle Union lines photo of College Hill (buildings, top, right center) across the Holston River, looking to the east, possibly even the northeast. The hill was from where the Thirty-Fourth Battery New York Artillery kept up desultory fire all night … Continue reading
More from Lieutenant Parker
Ezra Parker, first lieutenant of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, wrote a good post-war memoir on the fighting in and around Knoxville. Here he is on the fight at Campbell’s Station with the Rebel artillery: “This battery we … Continue reading
Hie thee to the street corner
That is, if you wish to commemorate the Battle of Fort Sanders during these Sesquicentennial years of the war. Supposedly, near the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Laurel Avenue is where the fort’s pivotal northwest bastion was sited, until neglect, … Continue reading
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Micah Jenkins
Some Rebel officers may have privately questioned Gen. Longstreet’s judgment in regard to preparation for the attack on Fort Sanders, but South Carolinian Micah Jenkins was the only one who complained directly to him. And when the disaster had unfolded, … Continue reading
Drummer boys
All of the troops were, affectionately, called boys. Some of them literally were. Younger than sixteen, anyhow, including the youngest casualty of the Battle of Fort Sanders, a fourteen-year-old drummer boy of the Second Michigan. But a few drummer boys … Continue reading
