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At dawn on Nov. 29, 1863, four brigades of infantry from Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps emerged from the declivity to the north and made a bayonet charge on Federal Fort Sanders at this point, but a deep ditch and raking cannon fire stopped them with heavy casualties, climaxing Longstreet's siege of Knoxville.
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Knoxville, Tennessee · United States
