. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . had personally directed the movement of the variousdivisions, and had superintended the building of bridges andthe movement of the trains. He found the city enemy had gone, leaving only a few guns. Porters ves-sels, which had moved up to Grand Gulf, were at the quay. Here he received a letter from General Banks, statingthat the latter would not be able to move, as contemplated,against Port Hudson for at least-ten days, and then onlywi
. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . had personally directed the movement of the variousdivisions, and had superintended the building of bridges andthe movement of the trains. He found the city enemy had gone, leaving only a few guns. Porters ves-sels, which had moved up to Grand Gulf, were at the quay. Here he received a letter from General Banks, statingthat the latter would not be able to move, as contemplated,against Port Hudson for at least-ten days, and then onlywith an inferior force. This, in Grants opinion, would be adelay fatal to both expeditions, and really forced him toaccept the alternative plan that he had already formed ofmoving against the rear of Vicksburg. He knew that theConfederates were gathering in force at Jackson, and thatif Pemberton should be allowed to concentrate his forces,the combined army would far outnumber his own. Tothrust himself between the hostile detachments, to strikeeach in detail, was the plan that now possessed him. Hehad thought long over such 184 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEE. He did not hesitate a moment what course to was busy several hours writing dispatches and orders toBanks, to Sherman and to his other corps commanders. Hewrote also a dispatch to Halleck relating his actions andhis proposed undertaking. His design was neither morenor less than to cut off his own communications with the rear,to hurry Sherman up to the fore, and to march with all histroops in a compact army, first, against Jackson, and, second,against Pemberton or Vicksburg. He allowed himself norest; but, as soon as he had finished his writing, he started,though it was midnight, for Hankinsons Ferry, turninghis back to the Mississippi and to his communications withfriends, and his face toward the enemy and the countrythrough which he should lead the expedition. He imme-diately issued orders
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