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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
thirty years. The woman's heart seemed to fail her at the reply. Apparently, she had hoped that her friends might be able to tire out the besiegers, even if they could not drive them off; but this waiting thirty years, if necessary, was a greater persistency than she had contemplated. His orders to subordinates completely express this side of Grant's character, and reveal the means by which he accomplished his results. To Dennis, on the west bank of the Mississippi, he said, on the 13th of June: Drive the enemy from Richmond. Reenforce Mower all you can, and send him to do it. This is the entire dispatch. To McClernand, June 15th: Should the enemy attempt to get past your left, with the view of forming a junction with Johnston's force, he must be defeated . . . . . We should hold and fight the enemy wherever he presents himself, from the extreme right to your extreme left. . . . In the same dispatch, but on another subject, he said: This is given only as a general plan, to b
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter IX. (search)
onmouth and Bunker Hill! John A. McCLERNAND, Major-General commanding. General Sherman to Colonel Rawlins. headquarters Fifteenth army corps, camp on Walnut hills, June 17, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Rawlins, A. A. General, Department of the Tennessee: sir: On my return last evening from an inspection of the new works at Snyder's bluff, General Blair, who commands the second division of my corps, called my attention to the enclosed publication in the Memphis Evening Bulletin of June 13th instant, entitled Congratulatory Order of General Mc-Clernand, with a request that I should notice it, lest the statements of facts, and inference contained therein, might receive credence from an excited public. It certainly gives me no pleasure or satisfaction to notice such a catalogue of nonsense, such an effusion of vain-glory and hypocrisy; nor can I believe General McClernand ever published such an order officially to his corps. I know too well that the brave and intelligent so