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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 26: (search)
as Atlanta was won, it became necessary to determine what use should be made of Sherman's victorious army. Grant's original plan, while he still commanded in person at the West, had been to acquire Atlanta, and then, retaining possession of that important Place, to fight his way to the sea, thus dividing the Confederacy again, as had already been done when the Mississippi was opened the year before. Mobile was the point he desired to strike, and a co-operative movement, under Sherman or McPherson, was designed, to secure that place as a new base for his army, when it arrived. On the 15th of January, two months before Grant became general-in-chief, he said to Halleck: I look upon the next line for me to secure to be that from Chattanooga to Mobile, Montgomery and Atlanta being the important intermediate points. . . Mobile would be a second base. A copy of this letter was sent to Sherman, and on the 19th of January, the scheme was also unfolded to Thomas. See Vol. 1., pp. 554 an
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Index (search)
ust of his ability, 231; inefficiency at Champion's hill, 262; at Big Black river bridge, 275; first assault on Vicksburg, 303; second assault, 315, 322, 324-326; insubordination of, 351; issues offensive orders, 362; com-plaints of Sherman and McPherson, 362; relieved entirely from command, 363; mischievous behavior and career, 363, 364. McPHERSON, General James B., at Fort Donelson, i., 39; at Shiloh, 81; at Corinth, 115-117; in command of Seventeenth corps, 161; at Lake Providence 167; atMcPHERSON, General James B., at Fort Donelson, i., 39; at Shiloh, 81; at Corinth, 115-117; in command of Seventeenth corps, 161; at Lake Providence 167; at Yazoo pass, 171; movement below Vicksburg 198; crosses the Mississippi, 206; battle of Port Gibson, 208; pursuit of enemy, 210; advance to Rocky Springs, 227; battle of Raymond, 236; advance towards Jackson, 240, 243; at battle of Jackson, 244, 216, 247; at battle of Champion's hill, 260, 268 269; in command of department of Tennessee, II., 18; with Sherman in Georgia, 533-540; death of, 541. Meade General George G., in command of army of Potomac, II., 6; magnanimity of, 15; in the Wilderne