ch happened to be in his own possession.
In reviewing the campaign up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, Sherman thus gives the credit to Halleck—or to Cullum or I—on page 219 of Vol.
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Thocular to the other, near its middle, and it coincided nearly with the general course of the Tennessee River, and he said, That's the true line of operations.
This occurred more than a month beforeus and Bowling Green, and the center about where the railroad between those points crosses the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, including Nashville and the fortified points below, It is, I have no dot. Louis, Mo.
Commanding General Grant and myself are of opinion that Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River, can be carried with four iron-clad gun-boats and troops to permanently occupy.
Have we yosition.
If this is not done soon, there is but little doubt but that the defenses on both the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers will be materially strengthened.
From Fort Henry it will be easy to ope