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ncentrated, threatening northern Kentucky and protecting Nashville and middle Tennessee. At the centre of this important stession determined the fate of Kentucky and Tennessee; for Nashville and Memphis were not fortified, and Bowling Green and Coltinuance, rebel reenforcements were detained at Columbus, Nashville was threatened, and Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, oailway, matters of absolute necessity. Bowling Green and Nashville are in that connection of very secondary importance, at tebel generals held a conference, and decided to fight for Nashville, at Donelson, and accordingly sent thither every thing th it back on his left, and to open a way for themselves to Nashville. Pillow says: We had fought the battle to open the way fe frozen in crossing, but most of them found their way to Nashville. The rebel official reports set forth these proceedingrs were opened to national vessels for hundreds of miles; Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, and a place of immense strateg
ncing the fact, and proposing the capture of Nashville, but said, I am ready for any move the generdivision (of Buell's army), had been sent to Nashville; since then, I have learned that the head ofas stated in a former letter. I shall go to Nashville immediately after the arrival of the next maat the next move is going to be. He went to Nashville, accordingly, on the 27th. His object was the 28th, he wrote: I have just returned from Nashville this morning. My impression is, from all I neral Smith from Clarksville, to join him at Nashville. On the 1st of March: I have informed the gterfered with military plans. Your going to Nashville without authority, and when your presence wiSmith's division of his (Grant's) command to Nashville, he deemed it his duty to go there in person nearly forty thousand men, was ordered from Nashville, to the support of Grant. And there was imm battle, though the cannonading was heard at Nashville, a hundred miles away. In a letter on thi[6 more...]
position between Richmond and the Mississippi river; while the rebels, under Bragg, were apparently attempting to move west of him through northern Alabama, and, by turning the right wing of the national army, to cut off all communication with Nashville, the base of his supplies. Halleck's dispatch, ordering reenforcements from Grant, was delayed ten days on the Mississippi, between Cairo and Memphis. Communication was by telegraph from Washington to Cairo, and thence dispatches were conveye, it is necessary that all the forces that can be spared in your department be sent to Rosecrans's assistance. . . . . An able commander like Sherman or McPherson should be selected. As soon as your health will permit, I think you should go to Nashville, and take the direction of this movement. On the 28th, Grant wrote: I am now ready for the field, or any duty I may be called on to perform. On the 30th, he said:All I believe is now moving according to your wishes. I have ten thousand five
from Memphis and Charleston and Richmond and Nashville and Atlanta meet, a town sprang up, of cours miles to the right, where the railroad from Nashville strikes the Tennessee, and formed his solitated from Louisville, by rail. He arrived at Nashville the same night, and, at half-past 11, he telg was reduced to eight miles. The road to Nashville was thus opened in five days after Grant's acentre; don't hesitate. By your presence at Nashville you will unite all discordant elements, and and may break through our lines and move on Nashville, in which event your troops are the only forion of Sherman's command will remain on the Nashville and Decatur road, till that is finished. With two roads from Nashville, I think there can be no difficulty about supplies. He now directed Busked: Have you sent any stores via river, to Nashville? I wish you to send all you can, while the is of vast importance that the railroad from Nashville to Decatur should be opened as soon as possi[15 more...]
aid Grant, such restlessness before, as I have at the fixed and immovable condition of the Army of the Cumberland. The quartermaster-general states that the loss of animals here will exceed ten thousand. Those left are scarcely able to carry themselves. It looked, indeed, as if Burnside was to be lost. These unavoidable delays and difficulties still chained Grant to his position, while the Army of the Ohio had begun the battle for its existence. The supplies that had at last reached Nashville, for Burnside, were stopped, as they might never be needed: General Burnside is now engaged with the enemy. You need not start the clothing for him, until the result is known. . . . . The rations for General Burnside could not be sent, now, even if there was water enough in the Cumberland, until the result of present movements by Longstreet is known. I think it better, therefore, to let the boats now loaded, discharge and return. On the 20th, Grant wrote to Sherman: Tomor-row morning,
t's command, was posted west of Decatur and along the line of the Nashville and Decatur road. Sherman in person started for his new campaignleventh and Twelfth corps were ordered to guard the railroad from Nashville to Chattanooga; the Fourteenth corps was left at Chattanooga; andhis tour to Knoxville, by way of Cumberland gap and Lexington, to Nashville, where his headquarters were now established. On the 15th, he sannessee river, so as to be independent of the railroad from here (Nashville) to the Tennessee, for a considerable length of time. Mobile woulsouri; and thus materially aided in the great success achieved at Nashville. The rebels had crossed the Tombigbee, and were in great alarnston, in the direction of Mobile. On the 5th, Grant was back at Nashville; and, the next day, receiving reports that two divisions from Johin his plan were suggested by Foster, who returned home by way of Nashville, and urged them upon Grant. Schofield's possession of that porti
in trunk. We have done much, but still much remains. Time, and time's influences, are with us. We could almost afford to sit still, and let these influences work. Here lies the seat of the coming empire; and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. On the 29th of December, Sherman had written to Grant: In relation to the conversation we had in General Granger's office, the day before I left Nashville, I repeat, you occupy a position of more power than Halleck or the President. There are similar instances in European history, but none in ours. For the sake of future generations, risk nothing. Let us risk—and when you strike, let it be as at Vicksburg and Chattanooga. Your reputation as a general is now far above that of any man living, and partisans will manoeuvre for your influence; but, if you can escape them, as you have hitherto done, you will be more powerful for good than it i
ary 6, 1862. Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, Cairo, Ill.: I wish you to make a demonstration in force on Mayfield, and in the direction of Murray. Forces from Paducah and Fort Holt should meet it and threaten Camp Beauregard and Murray, letting it be understood that Dover is the object of your attack. But don't advance far enough to expose your flank or rear to an attack from Columbus, and by all means avoid a serious engagement. Make a great fuss about moving all your force towards Nashville, and let it be so reported by the newspapers. Take proper precautions to deceive your own men as well as the enemy. Let no one, not even a member of your own staff, know the real object. I will send you some forces from this place to increase the deception. Let it be understood that twenty or thirty thousand men are expected from Missouri, and that your force is merely the advanced guard to the main column of attack. The object is to prevent reenforcements being sent to Buckner. Ha