THE WORLD, New York, Nov. 24, 1863  

* Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee
* General Ambrose Burnside 

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "General Grant's Department" "Longstreet To Be Cut Off" "Gen. Burnside Still Holding Out at Knoxville" "Severe Fighting on the 19th & 20th" "Later From Port Royal "The Siege of Charleston" & more.
Eight pages, good condition.

Background: The Siege of Knoxville (November 17 – December 4, 1863) was a pivotal Civil War campaign in which Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet attempted to recapture pro-Union East Tennessee and starve out the 12,000-man Union garrison commanded by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. After executing a masterful fighting withdrawal to delay the Confederate advance, Burnside entrenched his forces within the city's formidable earthworks, setting the stage for the campaign's decisive climax at the Battle of Fort Sanders on November 29. The fort's defenses, ingeniously designed by Union Captain Orlando Poe, featured a steep, inescapable ditch, defensive abatis, and one of the earliest military uses of telegraph wire stretched between tree stumps to trip advancing infantry. When 3,000 Confederates launched a predawn assault without scaling ladders, they became fatally entangled in the wire and trapped in the deep ditch, where Union defenders devastated them with point-blank canister shot and musketry, inflicting over 800 Confederate casualties in roughly twenty minutes while suffering just 13 losses. This disastrous tactical failure, coupled with news of Major General William T. Sherman's rapidly approaching relief column following the Union triumph at Chattanooga, forced Longstreet to abandon the siege and retreat, permanently securing East Tennessee and its vital rail network for the Federal cause.