Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Grant” in entry kentucky of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... telegraphed to Polk to withdraw his troops; President Davis privately telegraphed to him to hold on, saying, The end justifies the means.
So Columbus was held and fortified by the Confederates.
General Grant , then in command of the district at Cairo, took military possession of Paducah, in northern Kentucky, with National troops, and the neutrality of Kentucky was no longer respected.
The seizure of Co...
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