. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . actly similar to that which now overtookGeneral Grant, and it cannot be better de-scribed than as a crucial test of his mediocre person would have accepted thenews as an argument for persistence in hisresolution to enter upon a siege. Had Gen-eral Grant done so, it is ^-ery probable hishistory would have been then and there con-cluded. His admirers and detractors are alikeinvited to study him at this precise cannot be doubted that he saw with pain-ful distinctness the effect of the disaster tohis right wing. His face flu
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . actly similar to that which now overtookGeneral Grant, and it cannot be better de-scribed than as a crucial test of his mediocre person would have accepted thenews as an argument for persistence in hisresolution to enter upon a siege. Had Gen-eral Grant done so, it is ^-ery probable hishistory would have been then and there con-cluded. His admirers and detractors are alikeinvited to study him at this precise cannot be doubted that he saw with pain-ful distinctness the effect of the disaster tohis right wing. His face flushed slightly.^^ith a sudden grip lie crushed the papers inhis hand. But in an instant these signs ofdisappointment or hesitation—as the readerpleases —cleared away. In his ordinary quietvoice he said, addressing himself to bothofticers, Gentlemen, the position on theright must be retaken. With that he turnedand galloped off. Seeing in the road a provisional brigade,under Colonel Morgan L. Smith, consistingof the Eleventh Indiana and the Eighth. Voi. THE CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON. 306 Missouri inuintrv, going, by order of GeneralcTsnuth. to-the aid of the First Div>^>onI SM-^ that if General McC lernand wou doakr Colonel Smith to report to nie. 1 wouldauempl to recover the lost ground; and theok7having iK^en given. 1 -connoueted tlehUl. ^-ernnnc^uixn^a place c^u^•irranired niv order ot attack. 1 to lead, and for that purposecriuetelthem to the crest of a htU opposue asteep blutf covered by the enemy. Ihe had been formerly ot my brigade^I knew thev had been admirably dnlled mthe Zouave tactics, and my conhdence inSmith and in McGinness, colonel of theEleventh, wa. implicit. 1 was sure they wouldtike their men to the top of the bluff. Colo-nel Cruft was put in line to support them onthe right. Colonel Ross, with his regiments,the Seventeenth and Forty-ninth and theFortv-sixth, Fiftv-seventh, and Fifty-eighthIllinois, we
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