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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
ies of the Tennessee, the Cumberland, and the Ohio, and that it was expedient to place under one supreme command the direction of this sort of aulic council, the voice of which was heard only in the telegraphic-office at Washington. Nobody could dispute with Grant the claim to this role. President Lincoln determined to give him, under the designation of the Military Division of the Mississippi, the command of all the armies operating between the great river and the Alleghanies. On the 3d of October, Halleck called him to Cairo: despite the precautions he had taken, Grant received the despatch only on the 10th, when he immediately embarked for the north. Sherman had arrived at Memphis on the 2d of October with G. A. Smith's division. Osterhaus had repaired by rail to Corinth, where Hurlbut's two divisions had already arrived. J. E. Smith was preparing to follow him by the same road; his troops were already collected at the station, but locomotives and cars were wanting. As G.