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The Assault Upon Fort Sanders

Laurel St, Knoxville, TN , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 35° 57' 32.22", -83° 56' 2.04"
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Four brigades of infantry, Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps, emerging from the declivity to the north, made a bayonet charge upon the Federal Fort Sanders at this point, at dawn, Nov. 29, 1863. They were stopped with heavy casualties by a deep ditch an

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