Abraham Lincoln: a history . additionpositive evidence that the President was in no wiseinfluenced by the newspaper slander. Upon a let-ter from Mr. Guthrie,^ indicating that the Union 1 I find many of the Union his policy of a line of assault andmen of the State are anxious defense required more troops thanthat General Sherman should re- could be spared without inter-main and lead our advance. They fering with other plans adopteddo not see the difficulty as it pre- or cherished by the Commander-sents itself to me. I suppose in-Chief and higher councils atthat although General Sherman Washingt
Abraham Lincoln: a history . additionpositive evidence that the President was in no wiseinfluenced by the newspaper slander. Upon a let-ter from Mr. Guthrie,^ indicating that the Union 1 I find many of the Union his policy of a line of assault andmen of the State are anxious defense required more troops thanthat General Sherman should re- could be spared without inter-main and lead our advance. They fering with other plans adopteddo not see the difficulty as it pre- or cherished by the Commander-sents itself to me. I suppose in-Chief and higher councils atthat although General Sherman Washington. In my judgmenthas been superseded at his own there is but one way for the Gov-request that it was all the more ernment to have the services ofreadily done because the line of General Sherman in Kentucky,policy for the army assembled in and that is to make GeneralKentucky pressed from Washing- Buell a major-general and re-ton was different from that his quest General Sherman to reportjudgment dictated, and because to EAST TENNESSEE 65 men of Kentucky were unwilling to lose GeneralShermans presence and services, but that a ques-tion of rank stood in the way, Mr. Lincoln madethe endorsement: If General McClellan thinks itproper to make Buell a major-general, enablingSherman to return to Kentucky, it would ratherplease me. The retirement of General Scott on the first ofNovember, and the elevation of McClellan to thecommand of general-in-chief, brought with it, asusual, many changes in minor commands. Briga-dier-General D. 0. Buell, previously chosen byGeneral Anderson for service in Kentucky, wasMcClellans intimate friend; and the new General-in-Chief probably needed no special inducement togive so important a duty to a favorite, who was inaddition an accomplished soldier. His qualitiesas a commander were yet to be developed; likeMcClellan himself, up to the outbreak of the war,he had obtained but little rank. The Departmentof the Ohio was formed on November 9, and Gen-ei
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