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Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
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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nygood. On his first advice that Long-street had been dispatched south-ward from Yirginia—it was said, toCharleston—he had telegraphed toBurnside at Knoxville, to Hurlbut atMemphis, and to Grant at Yicksburg,to move troops to the support ofPosecrans; and the orders to Burnsideand Hurlbut were reiterated nextday. Schofield at St. Louis and Popein the north-west were likewise in-structed respectively to forward toTennessee every man they couldspare. And it now occurred to Hal-leck—or did the day after Chicka-mauga—that two independent com-mands on the Tennessee would notbe so likely to insure effective coope-ration as if one mind directed themovements of both armies; so—Pose-crans being made the necessary scape-goat of others mistakes as well ashis own—Gen. Grant was selectedfor chief command ; Posecrans beingrelieved, and instructed to turn overhis army to Gen. Tliomas. ButGrant was now sick in New Orleans,out of reach by telegraph ; and Sher- *Xov, 17. Nov. 28-9. Sept. 13.
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■WHEELERS RAID IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 433 man, who represented liim at Yicks-burg, did not receive the dispatch tillit was several days old. Ilurlbutpromptly put his West Tennesseecorps in motion eastward; but thiswas not enough ; and Ilalleck, onlearnins; of the reverse on the Chick-amauga—hearing nothing from Grantor Sherman—detached the 11thand 12th corps from the Army ofthe Potomac, and ordered them, un-der Gen. Hooker, to Middle Tennes-see, to hold, till further orders, Rose-cranss line of communications fromNashville to Bridgeport. This trans-fer of 20,000 men, with all their ar-tillery, munitions, and baggage, wasmade with remarkable celerity,through the extraordinary exertionsof Gen. D. C. McCallum, govern-ment superintendent of railroads, M.C, Meigs, Quartermaster General, andW. Prescott Smith, master of trans-portation on the Baltimore and Ohioroad : the two corps marching fromthe Rapidan to Washington, takingcars, and being transported by Cum-berland, Wheeling, Cincinna

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