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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
appreciate your justness, General, in the part you have taken, and you may rely upon me to the utmost of my capacity for carrying out all your orders. In the same letter he remarked: I do not feel that I have neglected a single duty; and on the 31st of the month, Halleck informed him: General McClellan directed me to place General Smith in command of the expedition, until you were ordered to join it. General Halleck's telegram of the 3d of March was not left on file in the War Department, in with a letter from General Buell. The three divisions coming this way are yet on east side of Duck river, detained bridge-building. On the 27th: I have no news yet of any portion of General Buell's command being this side of Columbia. On the 31st: Two soldiers from the head of McCook's command (of Buell's army), came in this evening. Some of this command crossed Duck river on the 29th, and established guards eight miles out that night. On the same day (the 31st), he sent word to McCook:
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
mmand was not expected to fight Johnston, but simply to act as a corps of observation, and to destroy all stock, forage, roads, and bridges as it returned. Blair moved along the Yazoo about forty-five miles, and effectually accomplished the purpose of his expedition, preventing Johnston from moving upon Vicksburg in that direction, and also from drawing supplies in the fertile region between the two rivers. He was absent nearly a week, and reconnoitred the whole region thoroughly. On the 31st, Grant wrote: It is now certain that Johnston has already collected a force from twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand strong, at Jackson and Canton, On the 4th of June, Johnston had twenty-four thousand infantry and two thousand eight hundred cavalry. (See his official report.) and is using every effort to increase it to forty thousand. With this he will undoubtedly attack Haine's bluff, and compel me to abandon the investment of the city, if not reenforced before he can get here. Ad
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
orce beyond what you can. compete with, efforts must be made to assist you. Answer. On the 28th, he said to Burnside: It is particularly desirable that all the territory you now have should be held; but, if any portion must be given up, let it be to the east, and keep your army so that it and Thomas's army can support each other. It is better that you should be forced from the eastern end of the valley than from the west. Thomas is in no condition to move from his present position. On the 31st, three days before the movement was suggested to Longstreet, Grant informed Burnside: It is reported, on the authority of a Union man, that a large force of Bragg's army is moving towards you. Again, on the 1st of November: Should the enemy break through below Kingston, move in force to Sparta and McMinnville, and hang on to him with all your force, and such as I can send you from Bridgeport and Stevenson, until he is beaten and turned back. On the 5th, Longstreet's movement having actually