. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . William E. ChildsFirst Lieutenant, Company H. Thomas C. Taylor Bugler, Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co. D i865] THE LAST CAMPAIGN 213 Manchester, a suburb of Richmond, at noon. On May 9 the divisionmoved two miles nearer Richmond and bivouacked. Major-General Halleck had, on April 22, been placed in com-mand of the Military Division of the James, with headquarters atRichmond, and upon the arrival of General Shermans armies gaveorders for a march in review as the Western armies passed throughRichmond. He wro
. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . William E. ChildsFirst Lieutenant, Company H. Thomas C. Taylor Bugler, Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co. D i865] THE LAST CAMPAIGN 213 Manchester, a suburb of Richmond, at noon. On May 9 the divisionmoved two miles nearer Richmond and bivouacked. Major-General Halleck had, on April 22, been placed in com-mand of the Military Division of the James, with headquarters atRichmond, and upon the arrival of General Shermans armies gaveorders for a march in review as the Western armies passed throughRichmond. He wrote General Sherman on May 8, asking him tostop at his headquarters, where he would provide rooms for his aidesas well. General Sherman had seen a telegram of date April 26, fromGeneral Halleck to the Secretary of War, in which General Halleckadvised the Secretary that he had given orders to Generals Meade,Sheridan, and Wright not to obey any orders from General Shermanand to disregard the truce. General Sherman was outraged at theundue haste exhibited by General Halleck to take action that woulddiscredit him in the eyes
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