Charleston
Daily Courier
December 5, 1864
Page 1
����������� DEVASTATION OF EAST
TENNESSEE ORDERED BY SHERMAN�Intelligence has been received here that SHERMAN
has issued an order relative to East Tennessee similar to that issued by GRANT
to SHERMAN in the Valley.� He has
directed that the country be generally devastated, sparing neither houses,
barns, stock, grain, not anything else.�
A meeting of Union citizens was held in Knoxville,
at which a protest against this barbarism was adopted and forwarded to SHERMAN.� He paid no attention to it.� The Yankees can only carry out this order as
far up as Knoxville, as the Confederates hold
the country from near there to the Virginia
line.
[Transcribed
by Sharon Strout]