Tag Archives: The Siege of Knoxville

The Union was watching

New York Herald, Nov. 24, 1863 What history has generally forgotten was important at the time.

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The fanciful view in 1891

This imaginary view of the fighting for the Northwest Bastion of Fort Sanders was drawn in 1891, long after the event when anyone foolish enough to stand upon the parapet likely would not have had time to aim a pistol. … Continue reading

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