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id nothing but leisurely reap the advantages which the sanguinary encounters of the 7th and 8th of April had secured to the Federals through Grant's tenacity and the opportune arrival of Buell. This was the only time that he commanded in person; a month later he was called to Washington to assume the chief direction of the war. His opponent, Beauregard, also left the army he had commanded; but it was in disgrace. His army being once established at Tupelo, he had gone to rest himself at Bladen Springs, leaving Bragg temporarily in command, when Jefferson Davis availed himself of his absence to depose him. The actions of this general did not certainly correspond with the arrogant assumptions contained in his proclamations. The premature reputation which, in a moment of enthusiasm, had been attributed to the conqueror of Fort Sumter, had ruined him, as is generally the case with men whose genius has been vaunted before being tried; he had, however, exhibited some sterling and solid qu