The Man Who Saved the Union (101 page)

“Fort Henry is ours”
: to Halleck, Feb. 6, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:124.

“Fort Henry is ours … never be removed”
: Halleck to McClellan, Feb. 7, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:590.

“Thank Grant”
: McClellan to Halleck, Feb. 7, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:591.

CHAPTER 22

“I was very impatient … of National troops”
:
Memoirs
, 196-97, 206.

“At present we are perfectly locked”
: to George W. Cullum, Feb. 8, 1862.

“You have no conception”
: to Mary Grant, Feb. 9, 1862.

“From the first his silence was remarkable”
: Lew Wallace, “The Capture of Fort Donelson,”
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
(1887), 1:404-05.

“Last night was very severe”
: to Halleck, Feb. 14, 1862.

“The enemy was running from his batteries”
: Foote to Halleck, Feb. 15, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:22:584-85.

“The fort cannot hold out twenty minutes”
: Floyd to Johnston, Feb. 14, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:52(2):274.

“The enemy had been much demoralized”
:
Memoirs
, 203.

“The gunboats have been driven back”
: Floyd to Johnston, Feb. 14, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:52(2):274.

“If all the gunboats that can”
: to Foote, Feb. 15, 1862.

“Appearances now indicate”
: to Cullum, Feb. 15, 1862.

“Here and there the musicians”
: Wallace, “Capture of Fort Donelson,” 415.

“The first charge against him was repulsed”
: “Capture of Fort Donelson,” 417.

“Just then General Grant”
: “Capture of Fort Donelson,” 421-22.

“There was now no doubt”
:
Memoirs
, 206.

“No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender”
: to Buckner, Feb. 16, 1862.

“ungenerous and unchivalrous”
: Buckner to Grant, Feb. 16, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:161.

“He said to me”
:
Memoirs
, 212.

CHAPTER 23

“Honor to the brave!”
:
New York Tribune
, Feb. 18, 1862.

“You have Fort Donelson safe”
: Lincoln to Halleck, Feb. 16, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“Give me command in the West”
: Halleck to McClellan, Feb. 17, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:628.

“Give it to me”
: Halleck to McClellan, Feb. 19, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:636.

“I must have command”
: Halleck to McClellan, Feb. 20, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:641.

“General Halleck did not approve”
:
Memoirs
, 197.

“I received no other recognition”
:
Memoirs
, 214.

“After the fall of Fort Donelson”
:
Memoirs
, 214.

“ ‘Secesh’ is now about on its last legs”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Feb. 24, 1862.

“General Halleck is clearly the same way”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Feb. 24, 1862.

“Don’t be rash”
: G. W. Cullum (for Halleck) to Grant, Feb. 15, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:619.

“Smith, by his coolness and bravery”
: Halleck to McClellan, Feb. 19, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:637.

“This operator afterwards proved”
:
Memoirs
, 219.

“Why do you not obey my orders … at Fort Henry”
: from Halleck, March 4, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:10(2):3.

“Your going to Nashville”
: from Halleck, March 6, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:10(2):15.

“I am not aware”
: to Halleck, March 5, 1862.

“I am in a very poor humor”
: to Julia Dent Grant, March 5, 1862.

“I have done my very best”
: to Halleck, March 7, 1862.

“You are mistaken”
: Halleck to Grant, March 8, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:10(2):21.

“I renew my application”
: to Halleck, March 9, 1862.

“You cannot be relieved”
: Halleck to Grant, March 13, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:10(2):32.

CHAPTER 24

“I should like to hear from you”
: Sherman to Grant, Feb. 15, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 4:215n.

“They are all friends … on reaching Washington”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 219-20.

“I know that others than yourself”
: Sherman to John Sherman, Nov. 21, 1861,
The Sherman Letters
(1894), 135.

“General Sherman was completely ‘stampeded’ ”
: Halleck to McClellan, Dec. 2, 1861,
Official Records
, 1:52(1):198.

“insane”
:
Cincinnati Commercial
, Dec. 11, 1861, in James Ford Rhodes,
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
(1906), 5:5.

“These newspapers have us in their power”
: Sherman to Halleck, Dec. 12, 1861,
Official Records
, 1:8:819.

“The newspaper attacks are certainly shameless”
: Halleck to Sherman, Dec. 18, 1861,
Official Records
, 1:8:445.

“As evidence that I have every confidence”
: Halleck to Thomas Ewing, Feb. 15, 1862,
Memoirs of Sherman
, 236.

“one of the noblest men…‘none to give you’ ”
: Jefferson Davis,
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
(1881), 2:38.

“We have suffered great anxiety”
: Davis to Johnston, March 12, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:257-58.

“The test of merit in my profession”
: Johnston to Davis, March 18, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:7:261.

“If we obtained possession of Corinth”
:
Memoirs
, 222.

“When all reinforcements”
:
Memoirs
, 223.

“I would fight them if they were a million”
: William Preston Johnston, “Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh,”
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
(1887), 1:555.

“We had just left the bleak, frozen North … to give up that they were whipped”
: Leander Stillwell,
Personal Recollections of the Battle of Shiloh
(1892), 7-17.

“From about the 1st of April”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 249.

“All is quiet along my lines”
: Sherman to Grant, April 5, 1862 (two messages),
Official Records
, 1:10(2):93.

“About 8 a.m.…rest of the day”
: Sherman to Capt. J. A. Rawlins, April 10, 1862,
Memoirs of Sherman
, 256-58.

“I wish I could make a visit”
: to Julia Dent Grant, April 3, 1862.

“Found all quiet”
: to Halleck, April 5, 1862.

“I was intending”
:
Memoirs
, 224.

“Heavy firing is heard up the river”
: to Buell, April 6, 1862.

“The attack on my forces”
: to Commanding Officer, Advance Forces near Pittsburg, April 6, 1862.

“It stood on the ridge”
:
Memoirs
, 226-31.

“I haven’t despaired of whipping them yet”
: Adam Badeau, “General Grant,”
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
, May-Oct. 1885, 156.

“The last time I was with him … the first fire”
:
Memoirs
, 228.

“Staff officers were immediately dispatched … have been hoped for”
: P. T. G. Beauregard, “The Campaign of Shiloh,”
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
, 1:590-91.

“I visited each division commander in person”
:
Memoirs
, 234.

“It rained hard during the night”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 259.

“Rain fell in torrents”
:
Memoirs
, 234-35.

“Well, Grant”
: Charles Bracelen Flood,
Grant and Sherman
(2005), 114.

“I saw Willich’s regiment”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 259-60.

“My force was too much fatigued”
: to Nathaniel McClean (for Halleck), April 9, 1862.

CHAPTER 25

“More Glorious News … and irregular fighting”
:
New York Times
, April 9, 10 and 14, 1862.

“There was no more preparation”
: Larry J. Daniel,
Shiloh
(1997), 304.

“I will go on and do my duty”
: to Jesse Grant, April 26, 1862.

“The troops with me … by complete conquest”
:
Memoirs
, 238-40, 246.

“I did not know Grant”
: A. K. McClure,
Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times
(1892 ed.), 179-80.

“The soldiers of the great West”
: Halleck, General Orders No. 16, April 13, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:10(2):105.

“I have felt my position as anomalous”
: to Halleck, May 11, 1862.

“I am very much surprised, General”
: Halleck to Grant, May 12, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:10(2), 182-83.

“I have a father, mother, wife”
: to Washburne, May 14, 1862.

“I have been so shockingly abused”
: to Julia Dent Grant, May 11, 1862.

“I was silenced so quickly”
:
Memoirs
, 252.

“We found the enemy had gone”
: to Julia Dent Grant, May 31, 1862.

“I rode from my camp … his true place”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 275-76.

“I have just received your note”
: Sherman to Grant, June 6, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 5:141.

“I have never done half justice by him”
: to Julia Dent Grant, June 9, 1862.

“In General Sherman”
: to Julia Dent Grant, May 4, 1862.

“I prefer Lee to Johnston”
: McClellan to Lincoln, April 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“Your call for Parrot guns”
: Lincoln to McClellan, May 11, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“We are quietly closing in”
: McClellan to Lincoln, May 26, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“I have lost this battle”
: McClellan to Stanton, June 28, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:11(1):61.

“If we had a million men … and will bring it out”
: Lincoln to McClellan, July 1 and 2, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“If not attacked today”
: McClellan to Lincoln, July 7, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“Prisoners all state”
: McClellan to Lincoln, July 11, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“I will start for Washington”
: Halleck to Lincoln, July 11, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:11(3):315.

CHAPTER 26

“The day I started”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 93.

“I remember one of them”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 95.

“As we entered the encampment”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 102-03.

“With my staff and small escort … of Dr. Smith”
:
Memoirs
, 259-60.

“His impudence was so sublime”
:
Memoirs
, 262.

“There is a great disloyalty”
: to Halleck, June 27, 1862.

“You will suspend the further publication”
: Hillyer to
Memphis Avalanche
, July 1, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 5:182n.

“Government collections … receive such treatment”
: General Orders No. 60, July 3, 1862.

“The families now residing”
: Special Orders Nos. 14 and 15, July 10 and 12, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 5:192n.

“I feel it my duty to remark”
: Thompson to Grant, July 14, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 5:193n.

“But if it is to make him”
: to Washburne, July 22, 1862.

CHAPTER 27

“I learned with great pleasure”
: Washburne to Grant, July 25, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 5:226n.

“I write plainly and slowly … for not shipping it”
: Sherman to Chase, Aug. 11, 1862,
Memoirs of Sherman
, 286-90.

“I found so many Jews and speculators here”
: Sherman to Rawlins (for Grant), July 30, 1862,
Official Records
, 1:17(2):140-41.

“Fugitive slaves may be employed”
: General Orders No. 72, Aug. 11, 1862,
Papers of Grant
, 5:273n.

“I have no hobby of my own”
: to Jesse Grant, Aug. 3, 1862.

“On the face of this wide earth”
: Greeley to Lincoln, Aug. 19, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“I would save the Union”
: Lincoln to Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

“One morning he asked me … the end of the war”
: David Homer Bates, “Lincoln in the Telegraph Office,”
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
, May-Oct. 1907, 372-73.

“I said to the cabinet … to the government”
: F. B. Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln
(1867), 21-22.

“He said that nothing but foul play”
: William Roscoe Thayer,
The Life and Letters of John Hay
(1915), 1:128.

“A splendid army almost demoralized”
: John J. Hennessey,
Return to Bull Run
(1999), 471.

“The President was in deep distress”
: Bates note in
Collected Works of Lincoln
, 5:486n.

“The will of God prevails”
: Lincoln note, undated (Sept. 2, 1862),
Collected Works of Lincoln
, 5:404.