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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 22 (search)
eat that at 4 P. M. on December 6 he telegraphed Thomas: Attack Hood at once, and wait no longer for a remount of your cavalry. There is great danger of delay resulting in a campaign back to the Ohio River. Thomas replied at 9 o'clock that night: . . . I will make the necessary dispositions and attack Hood at once, agreeably to your order, though I believe it will be hazardous with the small force of cavalry now at my service. News had been received that Hood was moving a force toward Harpeth Shoals on the Cumberland. That night Weitzel's troops embarked for the Fort Fisher expedition. Butler came over to headquarters, and announced his purpose of accompanying the expedition. This was the first intimation the general had that Butler was ambitious to go in person with the troops, as it was not the intention that he should command. Grant had selected in Weitzel an officer whom he regarded as peculiarly qualified for the management of such a delicate undertaking. However, it wo