Abraham Lincoln : a history . SHERMANS CAMPAIGN TO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE. 8 ABEAHAM LINCOLN chap. i. of the Federal army to the line of the suggested at the same time throwing a heavycolumn of cavalry into West and Middle Tennessee,to operate on the National lines of communications,JNarratwe and, as a result of this, the capture of Nashville0 oPerajry and the reclamation of the provision country ofpp. 291/292. Tennessee and Kentucky. But at the time thisdispatch was received, Johnston had just heard ofGrants visit to the West, and of Shermans arrivalat Memphis. He expected, therefore
Abraham Lincoln : a history . SHERMANS CAMPAIGN TO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE. 8 ABEAHAM LINCOLN chap. i. of the Federal army to the line of the suggested at the same time throwing a heavycolumn of cavalry into West and Middle Tennessee,to operate on the National lines of communications,JNarratwe and, as a result of this, the capture of Nashville0 oPerajry and the reclamation of the provision country ofpp. 291/292. Tennessee and Kentucky. But at the time thisdispatch was received, Johnston had just heard ofGrants visit to the West, and of Shermans arrivalat Memphis. He expected, therefore, the great Fed-eral effort to be made in that region. He [Grant]has not come back to Tennessee, he says, to standon the defensive. His advance, should we be readyn>id., p. 294. for it, will be advantageous for us. He, therefore,urgently demanded that the troops which had beenoffered him for an aggressive movement be senthim at once, and used at his discretion; and thesame day he wrote to General Bragg, criticizingin his usual clear, sensible, and exasperating m
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