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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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him General.-: Grant.— If I have, it has only served him right.,: But the miscreant recovered and was taken back to hisquarters. September opened gloomily. In Virginia, Pope hadbeen badly defeated. In Kentucky, Bragg had penetratednorthward till he boldly threatened the free State of Ohio. Sterling Price, seized Iuka. (Map, page 198.) Grantdetermining to destroy him before Yan Dorn—approachingfrom the southwest with another force—could join him, sentRosecrans and Ord, to attack Price. On the nineteenth of September, Rosecrans encounteredhim two miles south of Iuka. Fighting continued fromfour oclock until ten, Rosecrans losing seven hundred inkilled and wounded. The next morning, Ord, approachingfrom the north, pushed into Iuka, but the rebels had fled. The indecisive battle only crippled the enemy. Pricejoined Yan Dorn, which rendered Grants position very pre-carious. On the twenty-third, leaving Rosecrans in com-mand at Corinth, and Ord at Bolivar, he removed his own of •/J
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THE NEW YOPw ^BUCUBIURy. TLOEN FOOWATJ is62-) The Battle oe Corinth. 269 head-quarters to Jackson, Tennessee, a better point for over-looking his whole department. It was difficult to surmise where the enemy would strike,and he was harassed and absorbed. Several Galena gen-tlemen now spent a few days with him. One morningWashburne, rising very early, found Grant at his desk :— You are up early, General V Yes ; I got up at two o clock, and have been workingever since, trying to study out the plans of old PapPrice. * Price retreating southward, formed a junction with VanDorn. Indications soon pointed to Corinth as the placeaimed at by their united armies, and Grant ordered Rose-crans to call in his outlying forces, and sent Ord andHurlbut to strike the rebels in flank or rear. Rosecrans had nineteen thousand men. On the third ofOctober, Yan Dorn, commanding his own and Prices troops,reported at eighteen thousand in all, approached Corinthfrom the north. Five miles out he met Rosecrans

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