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nce, or accomplishment, or character, atoned. He refused to employ an instrument with which he had found himself unable to accomplish his designs. On the 27th of February, he said to Canby: I am extremely anxious to hear of your forces getting to the interior of Alabama. I send Grierson, an experienced cavalry commander, to t; but greater soldiers overcame just such difficulties, and Grant Preferred those who did. Thomas's delay now compelled Grant to change his plans. On the 27th of February, one month after he had first ordered Stoneman's advance, he said to Thomas: Stoneman being so late in making his start from East Tennessee, and Sherman havile to come within fifty miles of Lynchburg. On the 19th of March, Sheridan arrived at White House with his command. He had started from Winchester on the 27th of February, with ten thousand men, all cavalry. Custer and Devin were his division generals, and Merritt was chief of cavalry. He took four days rations in haversacks