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January 28th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 3
From Fort Henry, it will be easy to operate either on the Cumberland (only twelve miles distant), Memphis, or Columbus. It will, besides, have a moral effect upon our troops to advance thence towards the rebel states. The advantages of this move are as perceptible to the general commanding as to myself, therefore further statements are unnecessary. Commodore Foote, commanding the naval force in this region, also wrote to Halleck on the 28th, recommending the movement, Cairo, January 28, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: Commanding General Grant and myself are of opinion that Fort Henry, on the Tennessee river, can be carried with four iron-clad gunboats and troops to permanently occupy. Have we your authority to move for that purpose when ready? A. H. Foote, Flag-Officer. and on the 30th of January, that officer gave the desired permission, and sent detailed instructions. See Appendix for Halleck's instructions in full. These arrived on the 1st of F
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rmishers were thrown out actively in front, and several smart fights occurred, but with no result of importance. They were in no case intended for real assaults, but simply as attempts to discover the force and position of the enemy, and to establish the national line. An attempt was made by McClernand to capture a battery commanding the ridge road on which Grant moved, but this was without orders, and unsuccessful, though gallantly made; three regiments were engaged in the affair. On the first two days, Grant lost about three hundred men, in killed and wounded. The enemy, notwithstanding his great superiority in numbers, made no effort to molest Grant, allowing him to continue the investment at his leisure, a blunder almost equal to that of opposing no obstacle to the march from Fort Henry. By the night of the 13th, Grant was established on a line of heights, in general parallel with the enemy's outworks, and extending for a distance of over three miles. Various spaces and el
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al H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: Commanding General Grant and myself are of opinion that Fort Henry, on the Tennessee river, can be carried with four iron-clad gunboats and troops to permanently occupy. Have we your authority to move for that purpose when ready? A. H. Foote, Flag-Officer. and on the 30th of January, that officer gave the desired permission, and sent detailed instructions. See Appendix for Halleck's instructions in full. These arrived on the 1st of February, and on the 2d, Grant started from Cairo, with seventeen thousand men on transports. Foote accompanied him with seven gunboats, and on the 4th, the debarkation began, at Bailey's ferry, on the east bank, three miles below Fort Henry. McClernand commanded Grant's advance, and had selected a point for the landing, about eight miles below the fort; he even had his troops ashore at this place, but Grant made a reconnoissance in person on one of the gunboats, steaming up under the guns of the fort, in order
January 13th (search for this): chapter 3
the prosecution of the war, make the speedy occupation of east Tennessee and its lines of railway, matters of absolute necessity. Bowling Green and Nashville are in that connection of very secondary importance, at the present moment. Again, January 13th: It seems absolutely necessary to make the advance on eastern Tennessee at once. I incline to this as a first step, for many reasons. It is evident from these extracts, that on the 13th of January, neither McClellan nor Halleck intended, or 13th of January, neither McClellan nor Halleck intended, or at any rate was ready for, the movement up the Tennessee. Doubtless the propriety of the campaign was apparent to all soldiers, but nobody ever ordered or suggested it to Grant, except C. F. Smith, in his report. On the 28th of January, however, the idea being still prominent in his mind, Grant telegraphed to St. Louis: With permission, I will take and hold Fort Henry on the Tennessee, and establish and hold a large camp there; and on the next day, he wrote: In view of the large force now
January 6th (search for this): chapter 3
attempted to broach the subject, Halleck silenced him so quickly and sharply, that Grant said no more on the matter, and went back to Cairo, with the idea that his commander thought him guilty of proposing a great military blunder. On the 6th of January, McClellan wrote to Buell: Halleck, from his own accounts, will not soon be in condition to support properly a movement up the Cumberland; and again on the 13th: Halleck is not yet in condition to afford you the support you need, when you undertake the movement on Bowling Green. January 6th, McClellan wrote to Buell: My own general plans for the prosecution of the war, make the speedy occupation of east Tennessee and its lines of railway, matters of absolute necessity. Bowling Green and Nashville are in that connection of very secondary importance, at the present moment. Again, January 13th: It seems absolutely necessary to make the advance on eastern Tennessee at once. I incline to this as a first step, for many reasons. It
November 15th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 3
s dispatch to Grant, of two days before, limiting operations. On the morning of the surrender, when General Buckner congratulated Smith on the gallant charge which had carried the works the night before, the old hero replied: Yes, it was well done, considering the smallness of the force that did it. No congratulations are due me. I simply obeyed orders. See speech of Brevet Major-General Rawlins, chief of staff to General Grant, before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, November 15th, 1866. This speech has afforded me much assistance. Its record of dates is especially invaluable. Neither did the government agree with Halleck, that Smith should receive the honors of this victory. The Secretary of War at once recommended Grant for a major-generalcy of volunteers, and the President nominated him the same day. The Senate was in session, and confirmed the nomination instantly, and the whole country applauded. Grant immediately recommended Smith for a major-generalc
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