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This Day In History: The Siege of Knoxville Begins (1863)
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This Day In History: The Siege of Knoxville Begins (1863)

On this day in 1863, during the American Civil War a Confederate army under General James Longstreet advances on Knoxville, Tennessee. After surrounding the city, the Confederates placed Knoxville  under siege.  The…