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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
tion of the city of Atlanta. On the fourteenth day of March, 1864, at Memphis, Tennessee, I received notice from General Grant, at Nashville, that he had been commissioned Lieutenant-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States, which would compel him to to go East, and that I had been appointed to succeed him as commander of the Division of the Mississippi. He summoned me to Nashville for a conference, and I took my departure the same day, and reached Nashville, via Cairo, on the seventeenth, and accompanied him on his journey eastward as far as Cincinnati. We had a full and complete understanding of the policy and plans for the ensuing campaign, covering a vast area of country, my part of which, extended from Chattanooga to Vicksburg. I returned to Nashville, and on the twenty-fifth began a tour of inspection, visiting Athens, Decatur, Huntsville, and Larkin's Ferry, Alabama; Chattanooga, London, and Knoxville, Tennessee. During this visit I had interview
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 124 (search)
nton, Secretary of War. headquarters District Soute-East Missouri, Cairo, ill, November 17, 1861. General: The following order was receivnt: St. Louis, November 1, 1861. General Grant, Commanding at Cairo: You are hereby directed to hold your whole command ready to mariled instructions: headquarters District South-East Missouri, Cairo, November 8, 1861. Colonel R. J. Oglesby, commanding, &c., Bird's Pingly at once given to the troops under my command that remained at Cairo, Bird's Point, and Fort Holt. A letter was also sent to Brigadier-ion, I addressed Colonel Oglesby the following communication: Cairo, November 6, 1861. Colonel R. J. Oglesby, commanding expedition: Which was sent to Colonel Wallace with the following letter: Cairo, November 6, 1861. Colonel W. H. Wallace, Bird's Point, Mo.: Herigadier-General John A. McClernand, composed of all the troops from Cairo and Fort Holt. The second brigade, comprising the remainder of the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 157 (search)
encies of our situation, and under it about five complete, and as many incomplete regiments of twelve-months volunteer infantry had been organized previously to the raid. On the third of September General Washburn sounded the tocsin by information that the force under Shelby, at Batesville, Arkansas, was about to be joined by Price, for the invasion of our State. The ripening of the corn lent to this additional color of probability, so that on the sixth Major-General A. J. Smith, passing Cairo with a division of infantry on the way to General Sherman, I telegraphed General Halleck the state of affairs, requesting orders for this division to halt at that point and wait until we could ascertain the designs of the enemy. The division was halted, and on the ninth General Smith received orders from General Halleck to operate against Price & Co. ; but, deeming it impracticable to penetrate between one and two hundred miles into Arkansas with a small column of infantry, in pursuit of