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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1869Original Publisher: American Pub. Co.Subjects: GeneralsBiography ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book: LIB It A KUNIVERSITY .CHAPTER V. F 0 BT HENRY.DEPARTMENT OT MlSSOCRI. — GHAKT's BECOSNOI8SANCE INTO— Irs Value. — Map or Tield Of Operations.— Columbcb, The Giebaltak o America.— Rebel Lijje. — Foets Henry And Doxelbon.— Foote's Fiotilla. — C. F. Smith And Phelps Reconnoitre Fort Henry. — Grant Receives PermisSion TO ATTACK. — TE FORT DESCRIBED. — LLOYD TlLOHMAN IN COMMAND. —Grant's Drivers Of March And Battle. — The Navai. Attack. — Tiie Surrender.— Comments ox Rebel Defeat. — On To Donelson. — Tribute To Commodore Foote.The "District of Cairo," to the command of which General Grant had been assigned, began now to assume more importance, as the immediate field of war in the West blazed from new points almost daily, and the thunder-bursts were answered by echoing guns all over the country. On the 12th of November, 1861, General Henry Wager Halleck, of the regular army, and second on the List of major-generals, was sent to take command of the " Department of Missouri." He had formerly been an officer of engineers in our army, but had been for some time out of service, as a successful lawyer in San Francisco. He was well known as a diligent military student, and as a writer upon the military art. His department included the States of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas, and that portion of Kentucky west of the Cumberland River. This territory he at once divided into 'districts. Of this department, the District of Cairo was the most important part ; and it was on the 20th of December enlarged, so as to include all the southern part of Illinois, all that part of Kentucky west of the Cumberland River, and the southern r-ounties of Missouri south of Cape Girardeau. Confirmed in this large command, General Grant at once began to o... ... Read more

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