Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yaƙin Knoxville ya ƙare bayan yakin Bean's Station, kuma bangarorin biyu sun shiga cikin hunturu. Abinda kawai ya faru na yakin basasa shi ne ya hana Bragg sojojin da yake bukata a Chattanooga. Longstreet ya zama kwamandan mai zaman kanta ya kasa, kuma amincewarsa ta lalace. Ya amsa ga rashin nasarar yakin ta hanyar zargi wasu, kamar yadda ya yi a yakin Seven Pines
a yakin neman zabe na Peninsula a shekarar da ta gabata. Ya sauke Lafayette McLaws daga umurnin kuma ya nemi kotun soja na Brig. Gens. Jerome B. Robertson da kuma Evander M. Law. Ya kuma gabatar da wasikar murabus ga Adjutant Janar Samuel Cooper a ranar 30 ga Disamba, 1863, amma an ki amincewa da bukatarsa ta sauƙaƙe. Rundunarsa ta sha wahala a lokacin sanyi mai tsanani a Gabashin Tennessee tare da rashin tsari da wadataccen abinci, ba zai iya komawa Virginia ba har sai bazara.