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strongly held, and therefore feel easy in regard to its safety. Chattanooga, Bridgeport, Stevenson, and Elk river bridge have also been strongly garrisoned. This determination of Thomas to remain on the defensive, after a victory, was in direct opposition to both the judgment and instincts of Grant. He preferred to take advantage of Schofield's success, and to press the enemy at once with the reinforced army, before the influence of defeat was gone. At eleven A. M. on the morning of the 2nd, he telegraphed: If Hood is permitted to remain quietly about Nashville, you will lose all the road back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee. Should he attack you, it is all well; but if he does not, you should attack him before he fortifies. Arm, and put in the trenches, your quartermaster's employes, citizens, etc. The government shared very fully this anxiety of the general-in-chief, and an hour after sending his own despatch to Thomas, Grant receive
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ual to those of Thomas, and that one gained as much as the other, by delay. For a day or two, however, he refrained from further urging his subordinate, but on the 3rd, he said to Sherman, with whom he was attempting to communicate: Thomas has got back into the defences of Nashville, with Hood close upon him. Decatur has been abanny day, leaving Bragg free to return. I think it advisable for you to notify Admiral Porter, and get off without delay, with or without your powder-boat. On the 3rd, as has been stated, the generalin-chief wrote to Sherman, sending his despatch to the blockading squadron, to be forwarded as soon as the army was heard from on th Cumberland river on the right to the river again on the left, and all outside was held by Hood. No telegraph communication south, said the operator there, on the 3rd, to his fellow at Grant's Headquarters; No telegraph communication south, from Nashville, of course, but we can communicate with Chattanooga via Cumberland Gap and
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e in, there is a delay in getting the expedition off. I hope they will be ready to start by the 7th, and that Bragg will not have started back by that time. On the 4th, he said to Butler: I feel great anxiety to see the Wilmington expedition off, both on account of the present fine weather, which we can expect no great continuance stockades, as well as a train of cars on the Chattanooga railroad, and reported two hundred and sixty prisoners. So secure, indeed, did Hood now feel, that, on the 4th, he ordered Forrest to move with two divisions of cavalry, nearly his entire force, The enemy still holding Murfreesboroa with some 6,000 troops, Major-General Fesboroa, thirty miles away. Forrest started on the morning of the 5th, and Thomas's cavalry force was then far superior to that which remained with Hood. On the 4th, the enemy extended his lines and threw up new works; at the nearest point the rebel skirmishers were now only four hundred yards from Thomas's main works. Citizen
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he Virginia Central road? It is highly desirable this should be done, if it is possible. On the 5th, he gave Meade instructions to move down the Weldon road as far south as Hicksford; and on the 6tion of infantry, against Murfreesboroa, thirty miles away. Forrest started on the morning of the 5th, and Thomas's cavalry force was then far superior to that which remained with Hood. On the 4thnt had anticipated this danger, and was now intensely anxious in regard to the situation. On the 5th, he telegraphed: Is there not danger of Forrest moving down the Cumberland to where he can cross hould the enemy attempt to reinforce it, I hope to be able to defeat them. On the night of the 5th, Thomas telegraphed: If I can perfect my arrangements, I shall move against the advanced portion ll men liable to military duty. There were delays at the East, as well as the West; and on the 5th, Grant said to Meade: We will not wait for Getty's division. How soon can you move troops? I ha
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it is possible. On the 5th, he gave Meade instructions to move down the Weldon road as far south as Hicksford; and on the 6th, he said to Butler: A movement will be commenced on the left to-morrow morning. Make immediate preparations so that your legraphed: If I can perfect my arrangements, I shall move against the advanced portion of the enemy on the 7th; but on the 6th, he suspended the movement again. At eight P. M. that night, he telegraphed to Grant: Your telegram of 6.30 P. M., Decemb able to prevent him. Before receiving this despatch, Grant had finally given a peremptory order. At four P. M. on the 6th, he telegraphed: Attack Hood at once, and wait no longer for a remount of your cavalry. There is great danger of delay re yesterday, with a force of from three to four thousand men, to cut the same [Weldon] road south of the Roanoke. On the 6th, he gave Butler detailed orders for Weitzel's operations. The first object of the expedition under General Weitzel is to
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: If I can perfect my arrangements, I shall move against the advanced portion of the enemy on the 7th; but on the 6th, he suspended the movement again. At eight P. M. that night, he telegraphed to Gedition, and minute orders to Meade for the movement southward against the Weldon road. On the 7th, he telegraphed to Butler, now at Fort Monroe: Let General Weitzel get off as soon as possible. s done by the government, and nothing was heard from Thomas till nine o'clock on the night of the 7th, when he telegraphed to Halleck: Captain Fitch, United States navy, started down the river yesteremy, even to giving the positive order. He did say he thought he should be able to attack on the 7th, but he did not do so, nor has he given a reason for not doing it. I am very unwilling to do injund to him also on this day Grant was obliged to say: Richmond papers of the 10th show that on the 7th, Sherman was east of the Ogeechee, and within twenty-five miles of Savannah, having marched eight
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as was cut off. The Cumberland river was closed. Rosecrans, who had commanded in Missouri, was at this juncture relieved by Dodge, at Grant's request, and on the 8th, the general-in-chief telegraphed to Halleck: Please direct General Dodge to send all the troops he can spare, to General Thomas. With such order, he can be relied murmur. A terrible storm of freezing rain has come on since daylight, which will render an attack impossible, till it breaks. Meanwhile, at eight P. M. of the 8th, Van Duzer, the telegraph operator at Nashville, The operators at the different Headquarters were in the habit of sending telegrams to each other, which sometime Thomas himself telegraphed to Grant, in reply to the despatch of the general-in-chief of the night before: December 9, one P. M. Your despatch of 8.30 P. M. of the 8th is just received. I had nearly completed my preparations to attack the enemy to-morrow morning, but a terrible storm of freezing rain has come on to-day, which wil
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se, the powerful but dogged nature, which needed sometimes a goad, but when once incited into action, was as irresistible as it before had been immovable. On the 9th, at 10.30 A. M., in obedience to Grant's orders, Halleck telegraphed to Thomas: Lieutenant-General Grant expresses much dissatisfaction at your delay in attacking tove before Sunday [December 11th]. But Grant had directed Thomas to move without regard to Wilson, and on the receipt of these despatches, he telegraphed, on the 9th, to Halleck: Despatch of eight P. M. last evening, from Nashville, shows the enemy scattered for more than seventy miles down the river, and no attack yet made by Timity. But the high-mindedness was not all on one side. Halleck read the message as it passed through Washington, and telegraphed to Grant at four P. M., on the 9th: Orders relieving General Thomas had been made out, when his telegram of this P. M. was received. If you still wish these orders telegraphed to Nashville, they wil
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ntrate my troops and get their transportation in order in shorter time than it has been done; and am satisfied I have made every effort that was possible to complete the task. Still he did not attack. At 9.30 P. Mr. he telegraphed to Halleck: There is no perceptible change in the appearance of the enemy's line to-day. Have heard from Cumberland, between Harpeth and Clarksville. There are no indications of any preparation on the part of the enemy to cross. The storm continues. On the 10th, no despatches passed between Thomas and either Grant or the government; but on that day the general-in-chief directed Halleck: I think it probably will be better to bring Winslow's cavalry to Thomas, until Hood is driven out. So much seems to be awaiting the raising of a cavalry force, that everything should be done to supply this want. Hearing nothing whatever from Thomas, at four P. M., on the 11th, Grant telegraphed him once more: If you delay attacking longer, the mortifying spectacle w
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be better to bring Winslow's cavalry to Thomas, until Hood is driven out. So much seems to be awaiting the raising of a cavalry force, that everything should be done to supply this want. Hearing nothing whatever from Thomas, at four P. M., on the 11th, Grant telegraphed him once more: If you delay attacking longer, the mortifying spectacle will be witnessed of a rebel army moving for the Ohio river, and you will be forced to act, accepting such weather as you find. Let there be no further deleek. It is now gone to Hicksford, and I think can be of no further use. If the enemy are known to have retired to Staunton, you will either be able to make a dash on his communications, north of the James, or spare a part of your force. On the 11th, at 9.30 P. M., Thomas telegraphed to Halleck: The position of the enemy appears the same to-day as yesterday. Weather continues very cold, and the hills are covered with ice. As soon as we have a thaw, I will attack Hood. In the same despatch h
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