Union troops under Major-General Ambrose Burnside advanced into Eastern Tennessee, moving on Knoxville and then beyond. A small federal column, moving directly from Kentucky, had already attacked the heavily defended Cumberland Gap at the junction between Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. Burnside's arrival completed the victory, bringing into Union hands more than two thousand Confederate prisoners. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Legends of the Operations of the Army of the Cumberland (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1869), 22.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
