437 Series I Volume XXXI-III Serial 56 - Knoxville and Lookout Mountain Part III
| Page 437 | Chapter XLIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 18, 1863.GENERAL: I shall start on the steamer to-day for Nashville. Will probably be gone until the 26th instant. I will instruct my adjutant-general to refer all matter requiring immediate action to you, and request that you will act in all matters, particularly in supplying anything wanted by Foster, without waiting to hear from me.
Very respectfully,
U. S. GRANT,
Major-General.
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 18, 1863.Major General G. H. THOMAS,
Commanding Department of the Cumberland:
GENERAL: General Grant directs that the steamer Chattanooga be immediately loaded with assorted ammunition, hospital stores, sugar, and coffee, and sent back to Loudon. Also as soon as she has discharged her cargo that she be instructed to move all the stores previously sent from here and left at Kingston and below to the same point, for the use of General Foster's command. After having done this work to return here without delay.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. H. WILSON,
Brigadier-General.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, December 18, 1863.
Brigadier General GEORGE CROOK,
Huntsville, Ala.:
The following dispatch received:
The following dispatch received:
General Elliott is ordered to relieve Colonel Long and Colonel Long is to report for further orders to General Thomas. You will send to General Crook such orders as you wish to effect a concentration.
U. S. GRANT,
Major-General.
You will, therefore, concentrate your whole command at Huntsville, except Colonel Long's brigade, at the very earliest practicable moment. You will have to cross Elk River at the crossing of the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad,and if that is a more convenient point of rendezvous, collect your command there. Two regiments of mounted infantry from General Dodge's command will be added to you, and I will try and send one or two cavalry regiments from this point.
W. SOOY SMITH,
Brigadier-General, Chief of Cavalry.
| Page 437 | Chapter XLIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments