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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
er, a way was open to the Tallahatchie, and Brigadier-General Ross, with forty-five hundred men, was ordered iThe difficulty of procuring light transports delayed Ross over a week. but the combined fleet entered the pasBrigadier-General Quimby, was sent to the support of Ross; but, shortly afterwards, McPherson, with his whole ir shorter lines, to Greenwood. In order to relieve Ross, who was now in imminent danger of being surrounded,e, he wrote, it will so confuse the enemy as to save Ross's force. If not, I shall feel restless for his fate under Porter. The object was, not only to liberate Ross, but to find a practicable passage to the Yazoo, witrman's cooperation , and urged him to the support of Ross from the north, saying: Sherman will come in below tured; his previous orders to go to the assistance of Ross were therefore countermanded, Grant now intending tohis original camps opposite Vicksburg. Meanwhile, Ross had withdrawn from before Fort Pemberton, and on his
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
e, begirt on every side with rugged peaks, and guarded on the west by a grim and almost perpendicular height, that rises directly from the water's edge more than two thousand feet. This point was once the boundary and the barrier of the Indian country. The southern limit of the field is known as Missionary ridge, called so by the Indians, who allowed the missionaries to pass no further; a gorge in the mountains, opening south, is still named Rossville gap, after the famous Cherokee chief, John Ross; while the lofty crest that looks out over the rugged valley was called Chattanooga—the Eagle's Nest. The whole region was a mighty bulwark, covering one of the most important avenues for access to the South, between the Mississippi and the Atlantic coast. Away, at the centre of the continent, these precipitous heights, this lonely valley, and this tortuous stream seemed the very spot where the eagles might build their nests, and the aborigines pitch their camps, secure from the intrud
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter II. (search)
that we cut that line before he arrives. You will move with the least delay possible. You will furnish Commodore Foote with a copy of this letter. A telegraph line will be extended as rapidly as possible from Paducah, east of Tennessee river, to Fort Henry. Wires and operators will be sent from St. Louis. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. headquarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, February 1, 1862. Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, Cairo, Ill.: You are authorized to withdraw Colonel Ross's regiment, Seventeenth Illinois volunteers, from Cape Girardeau for the Tennessee expedition as soon as they are wanted. The remaining forces are sufficient for that place. Your requisitions for horses, mules, wagons, etc., cannot be filled immediately. By using steamers on the river, and as the troops will not move far from their supplies and water transportation, much of the usual trains can be dispensed with for several weeks. Don't cumber up the expedition with too large a train.