...th of July, Grant proposes to the general-in-chief of the army to transport these troops by sea to Mobile, to take possession of that city, and thence to enter upon a campaign which, in ascending the Alabama River , would lead him to the heart of the Confederacy. But this plan, the very probable success of which would have speedily put an end to the war, is not approved by Halleck, who is always ready to favo...