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e. Hardly had he done this when Price received a telegram from Bragg urging him to hasten to Nashville. [See map, p. 702.] This is what Price ought to have done. It is what Halleck, Grant, and Rosecrans feared that he would do. Rosecrans telegraphed Grant that he had better watch the Old Woodpecker (alluding to that bird's skill in deceiving its Brigadier-General Henry little, C. S. A., killed at Iuka. From a photograph. enemies), or he would get away from them. Halleck telegraphed (Sep-. tember 17th): Do everything in your power to prevent Price from crossing the Tennessee River. A junction of Price and Bragg in Tennessee would be most disastrous. They should be fought while separate Grant replied that he would do everything in his power to prevent such a catastrophe, and began at once to concentrate his forces against Price. Ord was pushed forward to Burnsville, where Grant established his own headquarters, and Rosecrans was ordered to concentrate his two divisions at J