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attempted to broach the subject, Halleck silenced him so quickly and sharply, that Grant said no more on the matter, and went back to Cairo, with the idea that his commander thought him guilty of proposing a great military blunder. On the 6th of January, McClellan wrote to Buell: Halleck, from his own accounts, will not soon be in condition to support properly a movement up the Cumberland; and again on the 13th: Halleck is not yet in condition to afford you the support you need, when you undertake the movement on Bowling Green. January 6th, McClellan wrote to Buell: My own general plans for the prosecution of the war, make the speedy occupation of east Tennessee and its lines of railway, matters of absolute necessity. Bowling Green and Nashville are in that connection of very secondary importance, at the present moment. Again, January 13th: It seems absolutely necessary to make the advance on eastern Tennessee at once. I incline to this as a first step, for many reasons. It