Federals and Confederates converge on Dandridge to gather much-needed foodstuffs for the hungry troops in the bitter eastern Tennessee winter. The engagement that results in this convergence causes much concern in Washington.
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Grant Urges Action in East Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant pushes John G. Foster at Knoxville to take the offensive, but the Federals are reluctant to hunt down the Confederates in such harsh winter weather.
The Fall of Mobile
April 12, 1865 – Eight months after the Federal navy sealed off Mobile Bay, Federal troops finally captured the city itself. Lieutenant General Ulysses S.