WINTER HEADQUARTERS HHH Longstreet in Greeneville CivilWarTrails.org

On February 28, 1864, Confederate Gen. James about ten miles west Longstreet established his headquarters here in the of here. His staff occu- house of Judge Samuel Milligan, a Unionist. The pied Joseph R. Brown’s Greeneville Town Hall Greenville house, now occupies the site. Boxwood Manor, and Gen. Robert other nearby dwellings. E. Lee had detached As Longstreet’s men Longstreet’s First foraged in the coun- Corps from the Army tryside during the bit- of Northern terly cold winter, they Samuel Milligan House in August 1863 to rein- clashed with Union Gen. All images courtesy Tim Massey force Gen. Braxton patrols. Gen. John Hunt Morgan joined Long- Abingdon Virginian, Feb. 26, 1864 Bragg’s army. Longstreet arrived just in time to street’s command while the headquarters was

. T Mrs. Jane S take part in Bragg’s victory in the Battle of Chick- here. Longstreet’s adjutant general, Lt. Col. G. N I West House A M . W. DEPOT ST (site) N amauga, . Longstreet later marched north Moxley Sorrel, and his staff telegraphed constant You Are . Here to drive Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s forces requests to the Confederate government in Rich- Dickson- Williams E. C 11 HU . from Knoxville but failed in the bloody assault on mond for clothing, shoes, grain, and fodder for the Mansion RCH ST . T S H S I Fort Sanders on November 29. Longstreet blamed horses. Beginning March 11, 1864, Longstreet R . I . T S S . N I T A S E M a division commander, Gen. Lafayette McLaws, for held McLaws’s court martial at Mrs. Jane West’s . G S E L L O C . the defeat and relieved him of command. house, the headquarters of Gen. Edward Porter S Longstreet’s 20,000–man corps camped Alexander, Longstreet’s artillery commander.

ST. W. MAIN 321 about twenty-five miles west of Greeneville late McLaws was later acquitted. Longstreet and his . Boxwood T S N Manor I A in December before moving to Lick Creek Valley, corps rejoined Lee in Virginia in mid-April. M . S