. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . t were being con-structed at Belmont. [See map, page 263.] August 28th I assigned Brigadier-General U. S. Grant to the command ofSouth-east Missouri, with headquarters at Cairo. He was fully instructedconcerning the actual and intended movements on the Mississippi and themore immediate movements upon the Kentucky shore, together with theintention to hold the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivei-s. In hiswritten instructions General Grant was directed to act iu concert with
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . t were being con-structed at Belmont. [See map, page 263.] August 28th I assigned Brigadier-General U. S. Grant to the command ofSouth-east Missouri, with headquarters at Cairo. He was fully instructedconcerning the actual and intended movements on the Mississippi and themore immediate movements upon the Kentucky shore, together with theintention to hold the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivei-s. In hiswritten instructions General Grant was directed to act iu concert with Com-mander Rodgers and Colonel AVaagner, and to take xiossession of pointsthreatened In the Confederates on the Missouri and Kentuiky shores. August 31st Captain Ninistadttn- was (Mdered to Cairo, to select a site oppositePaducah for a battery to connnand the mouth of the Tennessee river. Sept(Mnb(>r 4tli I sent heavy guns and an artillery officer to Cairo. wheieGeneral Grant had just arrived from Girardeau. T telegraphed the Presidentinforniing hiiu that the enemy was beginning to occupy, on the Kentucky. BRIOADIER-GESERAL SATHAXIEL A PHOTOOKAPH. IN COMMAND IN MISSOURI. 285 shore, every good point between Paclncah and Hickman, and that be occiij)ied by lis. I asked him now to include Kentucky in mycommand. September 5th I sent to General Grrant a letter of instruction, in which Irequired him to push forward with the utmost speed all work on the pointselected on the Kentucky shore ten miles from Padueah, to be called FortHolt. In this letter I duected him to take possession of Padueah if he feltstrong enough to do so; but if not, then to plant a battery opposite Padueahon the Illinois side to command the Ohio Eiver and the mouth of the Tennes-see. On the evening of the day on which this letter was sent to General Grant,the officer who had been sent by me within the Confederate lines reachedCairo on his way to St. Louis to let me know that the enemy
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