Been reading about Burnside at Knoxville. I have always seen him as a bumbler but I am now seeing him as a good stratigist based on what I have been reading. So one never knows until he studies something from many angles.

Frank, do you have a book on that. Let me know the title, as I would love to read it. Burnside handed Longstreet one of the more lopsided defeats of the war at Fort Sanders...Union losses 13, Confederate losses 183.. My own family had served under Burnsides in the 1st TN National Guard U.S.A. They were spearheading the Union advance into the Unaka Mountains when the company was jumped by General Vaughn's Cavalry, C.S.A. My 2x grandfather and his three brothers would cut their way through Vaughn's men and escape. Later they and others would return to Strawberry Plains Knoxville and join other Union Regiments.

I live on the Ohio side of the Ohio Indiana border area. A couple of years ago I was in Liberty Indiana....Burnside's Home...Not much there about him, just a small plaque by the highway and some cannons from the war in the center of town.