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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 11: War between the states (search)
structive to Dana, not only because it familiarized him with an important branch of the military administration, but because it brought him into contact with many of the leading citizens and army officers of the Northwestern States. The capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, followed by the occupation of Island No.10, the battle of Shiloh, and the Corinth campaign, had given the Federal forces complete control of middle and west Tennessee. The army was well to the front, threatening central Mississippi and the Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg. Memphis, the principal commercial mart of the region, was occupied as an advanced base of operations, and during the lull in the campaign which followed the advent of winter and the transfer of Halleck to Washington as General-in-Chief, became the chief point of interest in all that region. While not engaged in the actual work of the commission, Dana spent his time in riding up and down the levees at Cairo, in visiting the military camps
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 12: eyes of the government (search)
insubordinate volunteer from Illinois. As a politician he had been a leading Democrat with strong pro-slavery leanings, but with Logan and other Western leaders of his party had finally followed Douglas to the support of the administration's war policy. The President was therefore favorable to his ambitions. He had authorized him, shortly after the battle of Antietam, to raise a special force in the Northern and Western States, to be used in clearing the enemy front the banks of the lower Mississippi, and this force was now about ready to take the field. Up to this time Grant's actual command had been confined to western Kentucky and western Tennessee, with no precise definition of its limits or of the policy which was to prevail within them. The situation was somewhat cleared up by Executive orders dividing the Army of the Tennessee into four army corps and designating the army and corps commanders, but the danger of conflict or supercession did not even then pass entirely away,
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 16: Dana returns to Washington (search)
ns and force him to retreat beyond the Tennessee. To meet this danger Dana made haste, September 14th, to bring it to the attention of the Secretary of War and to urge him to push as strong a column as possible eastward from Corinth, in northeastern Mississippi. Dana to Stanton, September 14, 1863. This was in Grant's department, and the railroad running east from Memphis was in his possession, but it was too late to meet the emergency. Grant's troops were too much scattered; shortly after the fall of Vicksburg Grant himself had gone to New Orleans, while Sherman, with the bulk of the army, had been frittering his time and strength away in central Mississippi. The government at Washington had been clearly out-generaled by the government at Richmond, and although Rosecrans had succeeded in concentrating all of his own forces within supporting distance for defence, Bragg had also succeeded in concentrating all the forces placed at his disposal. As it turned out his reinforcements