Siege+of+Knoxville_BL3

     Siege of Knoxville: Fort Sanders

//**Kayleena Hess**//

--during the Siege of Knoxville.**
 * 1.** **My battle was Fort Sanders. ** 
 * Fort Sanders was one of THREE battles held--




 * 2.** **Fort Sanders was a 20 min. battle that was held on November 29, 1863

3.** **The battle of Fort Sanders was held in Knox County, Tennessee.

4.**  **There were two major and important officers; they were, Major General Ambrose E. Burnside for the Union **,
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">and Lt. General James Longstreet for the Confederate

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6. The battle of Fort Sanders was only one of the three battle held during the Siege of Knoxville. It was a short battle only lasting around 20 minutes. The Confederates believed that the only way to end the Siege of Knoxville was to go to Fort Sanders and take over General Ambrose Burnside and his troops. The Siege had been going on for a week now. The fort was just north of Knoxville. Just northwest of the fort the land dropped off; General James Longstreet believed that he could get his soldiers into storming parties and attck the fort by dawn. The Confederates used artillery attacks to weaken the Union soldiers. After this first stage of attack the Confederates charged. Little did they know that the Union soldiers had wire strung from one tree to another in order to slow the Confederate troops down. The Union had also dug a big ditch that was 12 feet high and 4 to 10 feet deep, which made the job of getting into the city and past the Union soldiers even harder than what the Confederates had guessed before. Instead of the Confederates just running straight up to the city and scaleing the walls they had to somehow enter the ditch and not get killed. Only a few made it to the other side of the wall only to be wounded, killed, or captured. The Union soldiers had a great advantage in this battle because they were uphill from the Confederates, making it nearly impossible for Confederate soldiers to get close to the city.
 * 5. The Union soldiers had the Department of the Ohio, and the Confedeate troops had the Confederate Forces in East Tennessee.

General Longstreet went against Fort Sanders trying to get what he could from the Union and running from General Braxton Bragg, a Union general. His failure did little for the cause. The Union still took over and in these final bettles is when the north got the "Gateway to the Lower South", and put many Confederates in Union camps.

7. The battle of Fort Sanders was short and sweet. The Union had an advantage the whole time. The Union did not know of the Confederates attack but they still won. There really was no turning point because the Union was so prepared.

8. UNION VICTORY!

9. There were 880 total causualties. 100 belonging to the Union, and 780 belonging to the Confederate.

10. This battle may not have been a huge or long battle but the Union gained a lot. These small battles helped the Union take over more Confederates and really just helped the Union win. It shows that small things count.

RESOURCES

http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm http://homepage.floodcity.net/users/mastdog/statesmain.html http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/**