 I have had no communication with General Grant for more than a week. He left his command without my authority and went to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull...  Civil War Times, 1861-1865 - Page 31by Daniel Wait Howe - 1902 - 421 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 pages
...storming party was but just lifting from its battlements : — ftl have had no communication with Gen. Grant for more than a week. He left his command without...Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Eun. It is hard to censure a successful general immediately after a victory, but I think he richly... | |
 | Adam Badeau - Generals - 1868 - 792 pages
...or intimation to Grant, Halleck sent the following dispatch to the general-in-chief, at Washington. "I have had no communication with General Grant for...seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Done! son as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run. It is hard to censure a successful... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Presidents - 1879 - 880 pages
...or intimation to Grant, Halleck sent the following dispatch to the General-in-Chief, at Washington: "I have had no communication with General Grant for...command without my authority, and went to Nashville. His arm> seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of For Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1880 - 646 pages
...after the capture of Fort Donelson, we find him telegraphing to McClellan, then Commander-in-Chief : ' I have had no communication with General Grant for...my authority and went to Nashville. His army seems as much demoralised by their victory of Fort Donelson, as was that of the Potomac hy the defeat of... | |
 | Manning Ferguson Force - United States - 1881 - 232 pages
...reflecting on General Grant, telegraphed to General McClellan, the General-in-Chief, at Washington : " I have had no communication with General Grant for...Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Bun. It is hard to censure a successful general immediately after a victory, but I think he richly... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 232 pages
...reflecting on General Grant, telegraphed to General McClellan, the General-in-Chief, at Washington : " I have had no communication with General Grant for...week. He left his command without my authority, and wont to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Donelson as was... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 1042 pages
...General Pope will attack New Madrid to-morrow. At the same time there will be a bombardment of Columbus. I have had no communication with General Grant for...Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Bun. It is hard to censure a successful general immediately after a victory, but I think he richly... | |
 | J. Hagerty - 1884 - 156 pages
...superiors. Halleck telegraphed to McClelland (then general-inchief) : " I have had no communications with General Grant for more than a week. ... He left...command without my authority and went to Nashville. It is hard to censure a successful genera] immediately after a victory, but I think he richly deserves... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...with. On March 3d, without previous explanation or intimation, Halleck sent this to Washington : " I have had no communication with General Grant for...seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run. It is hard to censure a successful general... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...with. On March 3d, without previous explanation or intimation, Halleck sent this to Washington : " I have had no communication with General Grant for...seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run. It is hard to censure a successful general... | |
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