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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 119 15 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 96 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 85 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 55 5 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 37 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 36 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 33 7 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 32 0 Browse Search
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil. 23 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 16 4 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
ct truth respecting the action of General Halleck toward General Grant before the battle of Shiloh, especially in ordering Grant to remain in the rear while General C. F. Smith was sent with the advance of the army to Pittsburg Landing, as described by General Grant in his Memoirs. Halleck hoped Smith might fight a battle and win Smith might fight a battle and win a victory in Grant's absence, which would naturally be followed by an order putting Smith in command in place of Grant. But Halleck had not anticipated Grant's soldierly action in applying to be relieved, and was not prepared to face that emergency. As soon as Grant's application reached St. Louis, Halleck abandoned that line of Smith in command in place of Grant. But Halleck had not anticipated Grant's soldierly action in applying to be relieved, and was not prepared to face that emergency. As soon as Grant's application reached St. Louis, Halleck abandoned that line of action, but he did not abandon his purpose to supersede Grant in some way until some time later. Whatever excuse there may have been at that time for Halleck's opinion of Grant, nothing can be said in favor of the method he adopted to accomplish his purpose to supersede him. The action of Grant in this case well foreshadowed th
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
tsburg, Fort, Wayne, & Chicago Rail-road, riots on the, 499, 500 Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., C. F. Smith ordered to, 361 Platte County, Mo., reported expulsion of Union families from, 93; trouble et seq., 231, 285; difficulties of communication with Thomas, 206, 207, 218, 281; supposes that Smith had arrived at Nashville, 206-208; holds the Columbia and Franklin Turnpike, 208; the retreat toille; Pulaski; Spring Hill, and the names of the various generals engaged therein, as Cox; Hood; Smith, A. J. ; Stanley; Thomas, etc. Correspondence with: Bates, E., Sept. 29, 1863, 93: Bigelow, pany Sherman to Savannah, 165, 317; proposal that he abandon Atlanta, 307, 308; strength, 308 Smith, Maj.-Gen. Andrew J., forces in Missouri, 164; ordered to reinforce Thomas, and his delays in reovement to Brentwood, 221, 223-225; battle of Nashville, 242-246, 250, 254, 268-270, 272, 291 Smith, Maj.-Gen. C. F., ordered to Pittsburg Landing, 361; the question of precedence over Grant at Sh