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Yates (search for this): chapter 5
ernor of Grant. The governor seems to have been puzzled. Meeting a book-keeper from the Galena store, he said: What kind of a man is this Captain Grant?. . . He . . . declined my offer to recommend him to Washington for a brigadier-generalship, saying he didn't want office till he had earned it. And the book-keeper replied, Ask him no questions, but simply order him to duty. On the day when, through a friend's offices, Grant had received the commission of colonel of an Ohio regiment, Governor Yates telegraphed him his appointment as colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois; and this he chose, and went to Springfield. There is a story that he was introduced to his command by two orators, who both burst into eloquence and rhapsodised for some time. His turn came, and much was expected from him; but his speech was this: Men, go to your quarters. They presently discovered that they had a colonel, although the colonel had no uniform, being obliged to go home and borrow three hundred do
Ulysses S. Grant (search for this): chapter 5
f thousands of lives. Sherman's own letter to Grant, March 10, 1864, hints this, but with the indu supplied all this. There seems no doubt that Grant possessed grand strategy — and none that his tas told, and has eaten everything. Umph, said Grant, everything? A pie did remain; and for this ton that sixty thousand men were necessary, let Grant go with seventeen thousand, and seven gunboatsre Foote. This was February 2. In four days, Grant had Fort Henry. In ten more, Fort Donelson anht in nine days; but Halleck was afraid to let Grant know the hand he had in it. Grant never vouchsGrant never vouchsafed a syllable to the world's injurious assaults upon him at this hour or at any other of his lifef Shiloh, Buell arriving in time to re-enforce Grant for Monday's fight. The words of Buell are thPorter's headquarters with an order to relieve Grant, if it were necessary. Porter told Thomas thand stripes wave upon Missionary Ridge. When Grant rode up among this seething triumph, the men q[108 more...]
Chairman (search for this): chapter 5
rant said, emphatically, no. Why humiliate a brave enemy? he inquired. We've got them. That is all we want. When the crestfallen Buckner capitulated, and Grant found him penniless in the forlorn place, he remembered Buckner's friendly help when he had been penniless in New York. He left the officers of his own army (says Buckner in a speech long afterward), and followed me, with that modest manner peculiar to himself, into the shadow, and there tendered me his purse. It seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that in the modesty of his nature he was afraid the light would witness that act of generosity, and sought to hide it from the world. We can appreciate that, sir. Indeed, we can; and we can appreciate Buckner's own warm heart whenever history gives us a glimpse of it. When Grant was bidding this world good-by in patience and suffering, Buckner was one of the last to visit him, and take his hand. The pen would linger over Donelson; over Smith's gallantry that saved the day on the 15t
Dorn (search for this): chapter 5
to borrow money at market prices, because this would be undignified, and issued instead pieces of paper, which it told the world were worth a dollar, and presently enjoyed the dignity of having the world value at thirty-five cents. There are blunders in 1862 so stultifying as to seem incredible, had we not seen much the same sort of thing since. But we were fighting Americans, not Spaniards, then. Happily, Jefferson Davis made some blunders, too; and thus Grant had only Pemberton, and not Van Dorn, to fight at Vicksburg, when the time came. Upon Halleck's promotion, Grant was put in command of the armies of the Mississippi and the Tennessee. The battles of Iuka and Corinth were fought. By November Grant was once again able to go on with his interrupted strategy of flanking the Mississippi. It was not until the following spring that he walked to his goal with a firm step. In the months between he was not only hampered by many external embarrassments, but his own mind had not co
Polk (search for this): chapter 5
cure this state, if possible. But no sooner did General Polk with that aim move upon Columbus on the river, t The Mississippi was closed from Columbus down. If Polk should get Paducah, the Ohio would be locked up too.ough his prompt sagacity the Ohio was locked against Polk. He now wanted to keep moving, according to his vieont could not see that Columbus should be taken, and Polk was allowed to fortify there and to send some forcesHe had surprised and destroyed the enemy's camp; but Polk crossed with re-enforcements from Columbus, and, regprivate. There's a Yankee, if you want a shot, said Polk to his men; but they, busy firing at the crowded boaes which are failures. It accomplished its object. Polk did not send the troops into Missouri, as he intendeng labyrinth of action. He wished at once to strike Polk at Columbus. Halleck prescribed caution; and Polk, Polk, unhindered, escaped south to Corinth, where under Sidney Johnston the South was massing all the strength it co
Stanton (search for this): chapter 5
en a better avenue of supplies. Rosecrans stopped at the hospital. When Smith reported from his inspection of the shore down the river, he found the general relieved by Grant, and Thomas in his place. Next day Grant, still very lame, began his journey from Louisville to Chattanooga. By train, on horseback through the washed-out mountains, and carried in dangerous places because of his injury, he reached Chattanooga the night of the 23d, wet, dirty, and well, as Dana's literary pen wrote Stanton. And forthwith order began to shape itself from formlessness. Grant's enemies say he had nothing to do with it, that it would have come without him. To this there is a sufficient answer: it did come with him. Guessing what might have been helps history no better than the post mortem cures the patient. And, in truth, these critics are preposterous. Earth has not anything more childish than a military man airing a grievance. That night Grant listened, and asked questions of the officer
Fremont (search for this): chapter 5
uld not a telegram arrive preventing the movement, waited till night, and went. He took Paducah without firing a gun. Through his prompt sagacity the Ohio was locked against Polk. He now wanted to keep moving, according to his view of war; but Fremont could not see that Columbus should be taken, and Polk was allowed to fortify there and to send some forces against a Union command in Missouri. On November 5, Grant wrote to C. F. Smith, who was holding the mouth of the Cumberland, The principas it receded down along the bank of the Mississippi, that highway almost inevitably must open. This was clear to many eyes, but to McClellan's it was not visible. This general-in-chief could see nothing beyond his own movements. At St. Louis, Fremont had been succeeded by a person equally incapable. General Halleck was the sort of learned soldier who brings learning into contempt., He was full of Jomini and empty of all power to master a situation. On him Grant, like others, urged the valu
McPherson (search for this): chapter 5
I shall never wear a sword again! and turned away. Only one or two witnessed this breaking of the real man from the depths of his grief. And generally he managed to keep a face like stone; but, upon the occasion when he learned of his friend McPherson's death, he went into his tent, and wept like a child. At this time he walked in intimate silence with C. F. Smith, his West Point commandant, and his temporary superior now; and those who saw them say that Grant's manner to Smith was somethside was. When in a few months Grant was appointed full lieutenant general, under special act of Congress (he was the first since Washington, Winfield Scott being only brevet), he wrote to Sherman: What I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson as the men to whom above all others I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success. How far your execution of whatever has been given you to do entitles you to the reward I am receiving, you cannot know as well as I do. And Sherman answer
Winfield Scott (search for this): chapter 5
n do now? Having with-out a moment's rest after a march of over four hundred miles, without sleep for three successive nights, crossed the Tennessee and fought their share of Chattanooga and pursued the enemy out of Tennessee, they turned more than a hundred and twenty miles north, and compelled Longstreet to raise the siege of Knoxville where Burnside was. When in a few months Grant was appointed full lieutenant general, under special act of Congress (he was the first since Washington, Winfield Scott being only brevet), he wrote to Sherman: What I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson as the men to whom above all others I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success. How far your execution of whatever has been given you to do entitles you to the reward I am receiving, you cannot know as well as I do. And Sherman answered in a spirit equally noble, You do yourself injustice and us too much honour. In these letters the two men lay bare their best selves. And how wel
Early (search for this): chapter 5
o whip him over Meade's shoulder, as he phrased it. He relieved his campaign of so captious a subordinate. It was, perhaps, advisable, but seems harsh. Yet, if the North was dismayed by Grant's destructive battles, still more so was the South. They felt the end coming. Each bloody crisis saw Grant move on. Such a thing had not been seen before. Early's almost successful attempt to take Washington did not frighten Grant from his siege of Petersburg. He merely let Sheridan loose upon Early, and broke him. That also settled the Shenandoah Valley, Secession's fertile incubator and truck garden. Sent there during three years to handle it with gloves, our soldiers had seen it so periodically that they called it Harper's Weekly. At length Sheridan, though inexcusably brutal in his barn-burning, yet, in destroying crops and forage, merely treated the valley as it should have been treated at first. But Secession considered that Union should fight with gloves. When Union began to f
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