It seems that Halleck suggested that I should go to Nashville as soon as able to move and take general direction of the troops moving from the west. I received the following dispatch dated October 3d: “It is the wish of the Secretary of War that as soon as General Grant is able he will come to Cairo and report by telegraph.” I was still very lame, but started without delay. Arriving at Columbus on the 16th I reported by telegraph: “Your dispatch from Cairo of the 3d directing me to report from Cairo was received at 11.30 on the 10th. Left the same day with staff and headquarters and am here en route for Cairo.”
END OF VOLUME I.
PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT
VOLUME II.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XL. FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON—GENERAL
ROSECRANS
—COMMANDING MILITARY DIVISION OF MISSISSIPPI—ANDREW
JOHNSON’S ADDRESS
—ARRIVAL AT CHATTANOOGA.
CHAPTER XLI. ASSUMING THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGA—OPENING
A LINE OF
SUPPLIES—BATTLE OF WAUHATCHIE—ON
THE PICKET LINE.
CHAPTER XLII. CONDITION OF THE ARMY—REBUILDING
THE RAILROAD—GENERAL
BURNSIDE’S SITUATION—ORDERS FOR BATTLE—PLANS
FOR THE ATTACK—HOOKER’S
POSITION—SHERMAN’S MOVEMENTS.
CHAPTER XLIII. PREPARATIONS FOR BATTLE—THOMAS
CARRIES THE FIRST LINE OF
THE ENEMY—SHERMAN CARRIES MISSIONARY RIDGE—BATTLE
OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
—GENERAL HOOKER’S FIGHT.
CHAPTER XLIV. BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA—A
GALLANT CHARGE—COMPLETE ROUT OF
THE ENEMY—PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES—GENERAL
BRAGG—REMARKS ON
CHATTANOOGA.
CHAPTER XLV. THE RELIEF OF KNOXVILLE—HEADQUARTERS
MOVED TO NASHVILLE
—VISITING KNOXVILLE—CIPHER DISPATCHES—WITHHOLDING
ORDERS.
CHAPTER XLVI. OPERATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI—LONGSTREET
IN EAST TENNESSEE
—COMMISSIONED LIEUTENANT-GENERAL—COMMANDING
THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED
STATES—FIRST INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
CHAPTER XLVII. THE MILITARY SITUATION—PLANS
FOR THE CAMPAIGN—SHERIDAN
ASSIGNED TO COMMAND OF THE CAVALRY—FLANK
MOVEMENTS—FORREST AT FORT
PILLOW—GENERAL BANKS’S EXPEDITION—COLONEL
MOSBY—AN INCIDENT OF THE
WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN.
CHAPTER XLVIII. COMMENCEMENT OF THE GRAND CAMPAIGN—GENERAL
BUTLER’S
POSITION—SHERIDAN’S FIRST RAID.
CHAPTER XLIX. SHERMAN S CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA—SIEGE
OF ATLANTA—DEATH OF
GENERAL MCPHERSON—ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE ANDERSONVILLE—CAPTURE
OF ATLANTA.
CHAPTER L. GRAND MOVEMENT OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC—CROSSING
THE
RAPIDAN—ENTERING THE WILDERNESS—BATTLE
OF THE WILDERNESS.
CHAPTER LI. AFTER THE BATTLE—TELEGRAPH
AND SIGNAL SERVICE—MOVEMENT BY
THE LEFT FLANK.
CHAPTER LII. BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA—HANCOCK’S
POSITION—ASSAULT OF
WARREN’S AND WRIGHT’S CORPS—UPTON
PROMOTED ON THE FIELD—GOOD NEWS FROM
BUTLER AND SHERIDAN.