Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . t gigantic effortyet made on either side since the commencement ofthe war. The Popular Favorite. After the fall of Donelson it was only natural thatGeneral Grant should, for a time at least, become thepopular favorite. All over the Union his praiseswere liberally sounded, and by not a few who had ac-quired an insight into his character he was hailedalready as the coming man. His sphere of action hadbeen greatly enlarged. General Halleck, as if tomark his appreciation of Grants noble services, hadassigned
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . t gigantic effortyet made on either side since the commencement ofthe war. The Popular Favorite. After the fall of Donelson it was only natural thatGeneral Grant should, for a time at least, become thepopular favorite. All over the Union his praiseswere liberally sounded, and by not a few who had ac-quired an insight into his character he was hailedalready as the coming man. His sphere of action hadbeen greatly enlarged. General Halleck, as if tomark his appreciation of Grants noble services, hadassigned him to the command of the new district of BEFORE THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 199 West Tennessee, a command which extended fromCaho to the northern borders of Mississippi, and em-braced the entire country between the Mississippiand Cumberland rivers. General Grant took immediate steps to turn to ac-count the victories which he had won and to pressthe enemy still farther to the south. He establishedhis headquarters at Fort Henry, where General LewisWallace was in command. We have seen already. MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE: that Footes flotilla was withdrawn from the Cumber-land, that part of it had gone up the Tennessee River,and that Foote himself, with a powerful naval arma-ment, had gone down the Mississippi for the purpose 200 GENERAL SHERMAN. of co-operating with the land troops against Colum- •bus, Hickman, Island No. lo, and New C. F. Smitli iu Command. It seems to have been the conviction of all the ^Union commanders—of Halleck, of Buell, of Grant— \that a lodo-ment should be made at or near Corinth in ^Northern Mississippi. The possession of Corinth or \Florence or Tuscumbia, but particularly Corinth, ;would crive the National forces control of the Mem- iphis and Charleston railroad, the key to the great :railway communications between the Mississippi and 1the East, as well as the border slave States and the lGulf of Mexico. It would facilitate the capture of Memphi
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