. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . 100 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEE. session of the fleet. Seventeen heavy guns and ninety pris-oners were captured, at the expense, however, of a loss tothe fleet of about fifty, caused by the explosion of an engineboiler which was perforated by one of the enemys had expected that the garrison would retreat fromthe fort, and had designed to prevent it, but the im-passable roads had hindered him. He had learned ofthe comparative stre
. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . 100 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEE. session of the fleet. Seventeen heavy guns and ninety pris-oners were captured, at the expense, however, of a loss tothe fleet of about fifty, caused by the explosion of an engineboiler which was perforated by one of the enemys had expected that the garrison would retreat fromthe fort, and had designed to prevent it, but the im-passable roads had hindered him. He had learned ofthe comparative strength of Henry and Donelson and be-lieved that the enemy would concentrate their forces at the. FORT DONELSON. latter, a higher and stronger post. He had now fulfilledthe extent of Hallecks direct orders, and halted to commu-nicate with him and to await reinforcements before proceed-ing against Donelson. Grants orders did not limit his operations to the takingof Fort Henry, and as the stronger fort was clearly withinhis jurisdiction, he resolved to exercise his own discretionand move against it. He so informed General Halleck,and stated his needs. THE ADVANCE ON DONELSON. 101 Halleck did not reply,either consenting or de-nying, but did write Buellthat Grant would movequickly upon Donelson,thus approving the courseof his energetic subordi-nate. Haste was neces-sary, because the enemywere hurrying reinforce-ments into the , from BowlingGreen, and Floyd, fromRusselville, were hasten-ing to it. Had he beenable, Grant would haveat once set out to theattack. But he needed the co-operation of the fleet,and he anxiously waitedfor the reinforcementsthat were coming. Thefleet
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