Charleston Daily Courier

December 5, 1864

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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]