Grant Moves South (79 page)

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New York World
's correspondence, printed in the
Chicago Times
, May 19, 1862; letter from Henry Doolittle to Senator James R. Doolittle of Wisconsin, undated, in the Doolittle Papers, State Historical Library, Madison, Wis.

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On June 4 Halleck made his attitude explicit by writing to Pope: “Our main object now is to get the enemy far enough south to relieve our railroads from danger of an immediate attack. There is no object in bringing on a battle if this object can be obtained without one.” (O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, p. 252.) Grant said that in the advance on Corinth Federal commanders were warned not to bring on an engagement “and informed in so many words it would be better to retreat than to fight.” (Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 373.)

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, pp. 138–139, 144.

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Same, p. 144.

5
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William F. G. Shanks,
Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals
, pp. 80–81. See also a speech by General James H. Wilson before survivors of the Army of the Cumberland at Columbus, Ohio, in 1897, quoted in
History of the 68th Indiana Infantry
, by Edwin W. High. In his Memoirs (Vol. I, p. 372), Grant remarks that none of Buell's Shiloh reports were submitted to him—an irregularity which caused him to refuse to write a full report on the battle himself.

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Letter of Grant to Halleck dated May 11, 1862, in the Civil War Papers of the Missouri Historical Society.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, pp. 182–183.

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Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 377.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, pp. 166, 172, 214. On May 22 Governor Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, who was then visiting the army, wrote
Stanton that the Federals appeared to be outnumbered and should be reinforced. (Same, p. 209.)

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, pp. 439–440, 618.

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Leander Stillwell,
The Story of a Common Soldier;
Robert L. Kimberly and Ephraim S. Holloway,
The 41st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry
, p. 28;
Chicago Times
for June 3, 1862; William Witherby Brown, “Reminiscences of an Ohio Volunteer,” in the
Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly,
Vol. 48; Alexis Coupe,
History of the 15th Ohio;
letter of Edward D. Kittoe, dated June 24, and letter of Colonel J. E. Smith, dated June 1, to Congressman Washburne, both in the Washburne Papers; C. C. Briant,
History of the 6th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
, pp. 130–131; E. W. Keil,
History of the 35th Ohio Regiment Volunteer Infantry;
Charles F. Hubert,
History of the 50th Illinois Infantry
, p. 119; Charles H. Smith,
History of Fuller's Ohio Brigade
, p. 72.

12
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
, Vol. I, pp. 152–153.

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Stanley Horn,
The Army of Tennessee
, p. 148.

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Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 378; interview with Webster in the
New York Times
, reprinted in the
Cincinnati Commercial
October 26, 1867.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, p. 130; letter of W. T. Sherman to R. W. Scott, dated Sept. 6, 1885, in the Sherman Papers.

16
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Richardson, pp. 257–258. See also the same author's
Siege, Dungeon and Escape
, p. 244.

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Address by Brevet Major General William W. Belknap, printed in
War Sketches and Incidents
, by the Iowa Loyal Legion, pp. 161–162.

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Correspondence of the
New York World
, reprinted in the
Chicago Times
May 19, 1862.

19
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Letter of W. R. Rowley to Washburne, May 24, 1862; note of same date, Rowley to Washburne; letter from Colonel Clark B. Lagow to Washburne, also dated May 24; from the Washburne Papers.

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Letter of U. S. Grant to the Reverend J. M. Vincent, dated May 25, 1862, loaned by Mrs. George Vincent of Westport, Connecticut: in the Lloyd Lewis papers.

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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. I, p. 255. The manuscript of Sherman's work, in the Library of Congress, differs slightly from the published version.

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Grant to Washburne, letter dated June 1, 1862, from the Grant Papers in the Illinois State Historical Library. Grant's Memoirs give his brief reference to Sherman's visits in Vol. I, p. 385.

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Grant to Washburne, June 19, 1862, from the Washburne Papers.

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Grant to Washburne, July 22, 1862, from the Washburne Papers.

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Halleck to Mrs. Halleck, letter dated Aug. 13, 1862, in the Oliver Barrett Collection.

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See also Badeau, Vol. I, pp. 120–121.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, pp. 225–226.

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Lieutenant S. D. Thompson,
Recollections with the 3rd Iowa
, p. 275; letter of John E. Smith to Washburne, dated June 17, 1862, in the Washburne Papers; Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 381;
B. & L.
, Vol. II, p. 720.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, p. 235; Vol. X, Part One, pp. 774–86.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part One, p. 671; Vol. XVI, Part Two, pp. 14, 63; letter of Grant to Washburne dated July 22, 1863, in the Washburne Papers.

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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, p. 14; Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 5; Vol. X, Part Two, p. 254.

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 9.

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O. R., Vol. X, Part Two, pp. III, 114–118, 124–125, 236, 243–244, 264–265; Vol. XVI, Part Two, pp. 9, 46.

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For the use which Bragg made of the breathing spell granted by the Federals after Corinth, see Stanley Horn,
Army of Tennessee
, pp. 157–159.

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In this paragraph I am following a suggestion advanced by Major General U. S. Grant III, grandson of the Civil War General, who wrote a lucid summary of the argument for Lloyd Lewis.

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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, p. 3.

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 29–30.

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Grant's letter to Washburne, dated June 19, 1862, in the Washburne Papers.

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Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, pp. 368–369.

1
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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, p. 8.

2
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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 17, 20; Vol. XII, Part Three, p. 435.

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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, pp. 69–70. It is a matter of no importance but of some interest that while Stanton was sending this dispatch—which proposed to cripple the entire campaign in the West in order to restore the campaign in Virginia—McClellan was writing his famous dispatch to Stanton demanding immediate reinforcements of from ten to twenty thousand men, and was saying bitterly: “If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or any other persons in Washington.” (
McClellan's Own Story
, pp. 424–425.)

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 55–56; Vol. XVI, Part Two, pp. 60, 74–76.

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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, p. 75.

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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, pp. 82, 88, 100, 117.

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Halleck to Farragut, O. R., Vol. XV, p. 517. The message from
Stanton announcing Halleck's appointment to the top command is Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 90.

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 90, 101; Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 393.

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 90–91; Badeau, Vol. I, pp. 107–108.

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 46–47, 68. It should be remarked that there was a good deal of substance to Halleck's complaint that at Memphis Grant was too remote from most of the troops in his district to exercise effective day-to-day direction of them.

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Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, pp. 394–395.

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 78, 84.

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Correspondence of the
Chicago Times
, dispatch from Memphis dated June 7, printed June 10, 1862.

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Grant to Halleck, O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 88; Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 390.

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General Orders No. 60, O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 69.

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O. R., Vol. XVI, Part Two, p. 14.

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Testimony of Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau at the Buell Court of Inquiry, O. R., Vol. XVI, Part One, p. 355.

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Matilda Gresham,
Life of Walter Quintin Gresham
, Vol. I, p. 178; Albion W. Tourgee,
The Story of a Thousand
, p. 72; the Rev. J. B. Rogers, “War Pictures”; Captain S. S. Canfield, “History of the 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry”; the Rev. W. W. Lyle,
Lights and Shadows of Army Life
, pp. 341–343; memoir of Meade Holmes, Jr.,
A Soldier of the Cumberland
, pp. 104, 116; letter of Dr. Edward Kittoe to E. B. Washburne, dated June 24, 1862, in the Washburne Papers.

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Halleck to Grant, O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 150.

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Grant to Halleck, O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 82; Papers of Grenville Dodge, Vol. II, p. 72, letter dated July 22, 1862; Lieut. S. D. Thompson,
Recollections with the Third Iowa
, p. 275 ff.; O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, p. 15; Theodore Clarke Smith,
The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield
, Vol. I, p. 373.

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Clipping from the
Cincinnati Commercial
, March 25, 1862; testimony of Colonel James Fry at the Buell Court of Inquiry, O. R., Vol. XVI, Part One, p. 714; the Rev. Thomas M. Stevenson,
History of the 78th Ohio
.

22
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Beauregard to Bragg, O. R., Vol. XVI, Part One, p. 711.

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Cramer, p. 69; letter of W. R. Rowley to Washburne, dated March 24, 1862, in the Washburne Papers; letter of Grant to Washburne, dated March 22, 1862, in
General Grant's Letters to a Friend
, p. 7.

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Cramer, pp. 85, 88.

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Chicago Tribune
, Aug. 30, 1880; Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 398; Cramer, p. 84.

26
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“War Memoirs” in the
Iowa Historical Record
for October, 1892.

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Letter of Mrs. William H. Cherry to the Rev. T. M. Hurst, in the
possession of William I. Cherry of St. Louis; Memphis dispatch in the
Chicago Tribune
of July 11, 1862.

28
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J. L. Ringwalt,
Anecdotes of General Ulysses S. Grant
, p. 98.

29
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Cramer, pp. 87–89.

30
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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 132, 139.

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Grant's Memoirs, Vol. I, pp. 396–397; returns for the District of West Tennessee, O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 143–144. For messages from Sheridan and Rosecrans, and for Grant's exchange with Halleck, see the same volume, pp. 114, 136, 139, 142. It was this period Grant called “the most anxious period of the war to me” (Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 395).

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O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two: Grant to Halleck, p. 155; Halleck to Sherman, p. 186.

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Sherman to Grant, O. R., Vol. XVII, Part Two, pp. 178–179; correspondence of the
Chicago Times
, June 27, 1862.

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The Isham affair is described in Sylvanus Cadwallader,
Three Years with Grant
, pp. 3–14. See also the
Chicago Times
, July 31 and Aug. 4, 1862, and the
Chicago Tribune
, Aug. 22, 23 and 30, 1862.