. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . rted to General (Jrant hisconviction that, th three or four of the turtle a strong co-operating land force. Fort Henry might heeasily captured, if the attack should be made within a shorttime. It was about the 24th of Januarv that Grant for- 40 GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. warded this report to Halleck. No action having been atonce taken, General Grant and Flag-Officer Foote sent dis-patches, on the 28th of January, asking for j^ermission tostorm Fort Henry, and-hold it as a strong point from whichto operate in any direction. Time wa
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . rted to General (Jrant hisconviction that, th three or four of the turtle a strong co-operating land force. Fort Henry might heeasily captured, if the attack should be made within a shorttime. It was about the 24th of Januarv that Grant for- 40 GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. warded this report to Halleck. No action having been atonce taken, General Grant and Flag-Officer Foote sent dis-patches, on the 28th of January, asking for j^ermission tostorm Fort Henry, and-hold it as a strong point from whichto operate in any direction. Time was valuable. GeneralGrant wrote an urgent letter to Halleck (dated Cairo, January29th), still further explaining his dispatches, and setting forththe feasibility and the great importance of this movement. Atlength the desired order came. On the 30th, in the afternoon,Grant received a dispatch from Halleck diiecting him to makepreparations without delay to take and hold Fort Henry, andpromising that full instructions should be sent by FOKT HENET. Without for an instant proposing to say that Halleck hadnot blocked out these movements in his own mind, we do saythat the plans of General Grant, based upon the energeticaction of his subordinates, and especially of C. F. Smith, wereformed and suggested to Halleck in entire ignorance of theplans of General Halleck. From the concentration of troopsin Grants command it was evident that Halleck intended avigorous move in some direction, but Grants title to theactual i)lan of movement is at least as good as that of eitherGeneral Halleck or General Euell. All preparations having been made, tlie iirst jxnut of attackdesignated was Fort Henry. It was an iiregular field-work, FORT 11 with fivo bastions, on tlio eastern bank of \hr . cmbrasiirea were revetted with sand-baj^s ; rind its arma-ment, a hirj^e portion of which swept the river Ix^low, com-prised one sixty-two pounder, one ten-inch cohnnbiad, twelvethirt
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