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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
Lewis Wallace attack by Grant on Monday the rebels everywhere repulsed Grant leads a regiment rebels ask permission to bury their dead results of the battle of Shiloh Reflections. On the 15th of February, Grant was assigned to the new military district of West Tennessee, with limits not defined, General orders, no. 1. headquarters, District of West Tennessee, Fort Donelson, February 17, 1862. By virtue of directions from headquarters, Department of the Missouri, dated February 15, 1862, the undersigned has been assigned to the command of the new military district of West Tennessee. Limits not defined. (Signed) U. S. Grant, Major-General Commanding. and Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to the command of the District of Cairo. Sherman had been at West Point with Grant, but graduated three years earlier, and they had not since been intimate; their first official intercourse occurred during the siege of Fort Donelson, when Sherman forwarded troops and supplies to