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The robe having dropped from Flatterer's limbs, the Kentuckian saw that the reality was hideous, and that to follow him was to go back again to the City of Destruction. The Confederates moved southward, laden with plunder, while General Buell, with his army of one hundred and forty thousand men, after having mildly pursued them for twenty-one days, returned to Louisville.
The next morning, according to orders, he sought again his commanding officer. Gen. Buell was a man of great reticence and severe military habits, and if the plan were weak or foolish, as might well be from the utter lack of experience of the young officer who was to make it, he would unhesitatingly say so.
Two other divisions, Crittenden's and McCook's, came up the river from Savannah in the transports and were on the west bank early on the 7th. Buell commanded them in person. My command was thus nearly doubled in numbers and efficiency. During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed to the storm without shelter.
The army as a whole did not manifest much regret at the change of commanders, for the campaign from Louisville on was looked upon generally as a lamentable failure, yet there were many who still had the utmost confidence in General Buell, and they repelled with some asperity the reflections cast upon him by his critics.
On the 21st General Grant sent General Smith with his division to Clarksville, fifty miles above Donelson, toward Nashville, and on the 27th went himself to Nashville to meet and confer with General Buell, but returned to Donelson the next day. Meantime, General Halleck at St.
Nelson, when he again advanced, came upon this consolidated line, which drove him back. Nelson was without artillery. His batteries, unable to get through the soft mud which the infantry traversed, remained behind at Savannah. General Buell sent to his aid Mendenhall's battery from Crittenden's division. The rapid and accurate fire of Mendenhall's guns silenced the central opposing battery.
Condition of Kentucky and Tennessee Halleck's instructions to Burnside Blockhouses at bridges Relief of East Tennessee Conditions of the problem Vast wagon-train required Scheme of a railroad Surveys begun Burnside's efforts to arrange co-operation with Rosecrans Bragg sending troops to Johnston Halleck urges Rosecrans to activity Continued inactivity Burnside ordered to send troops to Grant Rosecrans's correspondence with Halleck Lincoln's dispatch Rosecrans collects his subordinates' opinions Councils of war The situation considered Sheridan and Thomas Computation of effectives Garfield's summing up Review of the situation when Rosecrans succeeded Buell After Stone's River Relative forces Disastrous detached expeditions Appeal to ambition The major-generalship in regular army Views of the President justified Burnside's forces Confederate forces in East Tennessee Reasons for the double organization of the Union armies.
When the last of the Southern regiments disappeared in the deep woods, Dick and many of those around him sank exhausted upon the ground. Even had they been ordered to follow they would have been incapable of it. Complete nervous collapse followed such days and nights as those through which they had passed. Nor did Grant and Buell wish to pursue.
Both of you went to sleep take thet from me!" "Wal, he's gone, an' he took the kid's gun with him," said Bill, coolly. "Now we'll be dodgin' bullets." Dick Leslie had escaped! I could hardly keep down a cry of triumph. I did ask if it was true, but none of them paid any attention to me. Buell then ordered Herky-Jerky to trail Dick and see where he had gone. Herky refused point-blank. "Nope.
The Federal army was divided, the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant, remaining in Mississippi and Western Tennessee, and the Army of the Ohio, under Buell, being ordered to march east and capture Chattanooga. If Buell had acted promptly and swiftly, he might have been successful, and the death-blow would have been given to the Confederacy long before it was.
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