. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . later under Grant. It was the successful termination of theVickshurg campaign Avhich made seciue the military reputa-tions of both Grant and Sherman. Their good fame wasenhanced bj^ the subsidiary campaigns into the interior ofJNIississippi. and by the battle on INIissionary Ridge, in Ten-nessee. Henceforth, political generals were less in evidenceand the professional soldiers came to the front. Grant wascalled to exercise the chief command over all the armies of theUnion. To Sherman, who was now made a brigadier-generalof regulars

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . later under Grant. It was the successful termination of theVickshurg campaign Avhich made seciue the military reputa-tions of both Grant and Sherman. Their good fame wasenhanced bj^ the subsidiary campaigns into the interior ofJNIississippi. and by the battle on INIissionary Ridge, in Ten-nessee. Henceforth, political generals were less in evidenceand the professional soldiers came to the front. Grant wascalled to exercise the chief command over all the armies of theUnion. To Sherman, who was now made a brigadier-generalof regulars, was given the supervision of the entire Southwest,embracing practically all of the military frontier not underGrants immediate control. He was to direct the chief armywhich was to strike at the vitals of the lower South, and toexercise general supervision over the military operations inTennessee, ]\Iississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas, which weredesigned to make secure the hold of the Federals upon thelower JNIississippi valley. The river was held, and the a

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