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Identifier: reminiscencesofs00loga (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923
Subjects: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923 Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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is old regimentassigned to his brigade. Ignoring appeals to remain until hiswound was healed, he set out for Shiloh, arriving there latein the afternoon of the last day of that memorable engage-ment, disgusted with the delays of transportation that hadprevented him from participating in that mighty struggle,when fortune apparently wavered from the Union to theConfederate army, and then back to the army of the Union. Scarcely halting long enough to gather up the sick andwounded and to bury the dead, General Grant moved for-ward, hoping to capture Beauregard and his army. GeneralLogan was placed in command of the First Brigade, Third Di-vision, Seventeenth Army Corps. He was proud of his com-mand, and would have been happy but for the fateful efifectof the attacks of scandal-mongers upon General Grant, char-ging him with intemperance and incapacity to command thedauntless army, which was subsequently a part of the invin-cible Army of the Tennessee. The authorities at Washing- ■*P.- SK
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Q t-t te O A SOLDIERS WIFE 129 ton were so impressed by these reports, supposed to comefrom loyal, honest persons, that, wishing to protect the armywhich had scored the first victories for the Union, they placedGeneral Halleck in command, and designated General Grantas second in command, a designation never before or sincemade in the American army. General Grant felt the indig-nity deeply, but, true soldier that he was, he pushed his plansfor the capture of Corinth with unremitting vigor, thoughhandicapped at every turn by Hallecks dilatory, technicalmethods. Grant and Logan were on the most intimate terms, and,being aggressive soldiers, they became restive under Hal-lecks over-cautious tactics. General Logans command wasplaced astride the Mobile and Ohio Railroad which ran intoCorinth. In this brigade there were a number of men formerlyin the employ of railroads and who understood sounds con-veyed by the rails. General Logan learned from the teleg-raphy of these sounds that empty tra

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