Chapter 10:
- Grant recommends Sherman and McPherson for promotion -- characteristics of American soldiers -- army of the Tennessee -- organization of negro troops -- trade with the conquered regions -- Grant urges movement against Mobile -- Halleck disapproves -- Grant's army broken up -- condition of troops -- feeling of citizens -- Thirteenth corps sent to Banks -- Grant visits New Orleans -- thrown from his horse -- Reenforcements ordered to Rosecrans -- a corps sent to Rosecrans -- Grant ordered to Cairo -- meets the Secretary of war -- Proceeds to Louisville -- placed in command of military division of the Mississippi.
Immediately after the second capture of Jackson, Grant recommended both Sherman and McPherson for the rank of brigadier-general in the regular army.1 ‘The first reason for this,’ he said, ‘is their great fitness for any command that it may ever become necessary to intrust to them. Second: their great purity of character, and disinterestedness in any thing except the faithful performance of their duty and the success of every one engaged in the great battle for the preservation of the Union. Third: they have honorably ’
