Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2

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William Tecumseh Sherman. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2

CHAPTER IX. FROM THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN TO PADUCAH KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI

CHAPTER X. BATTLE of SHILOH

CHAPTER XI. SHILOH TO MEMPHIS

CHAPTER XII. MEMPHIS TO ARKANSAS POST. JULY, 1882 TO JANUARY, 1883

CHAPTER XIII. VICKSBURG

CHAPTER XIV. CHATTANOOGA AND KNOXVILLE

CHAPTER XV. MERIDIAN CAMPAIGN

APPENDIX TO VOLUME I. CHICKASAW BAYOU

ARKANSAS POST

MERIDIAN CAMPAIGN

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By the end of February, 1862, Major-General Halleck commanded all the armies in the valley of the Mississippi, from his headquarters in St: Louis. These were, the Army of the Ohio, Major-General Buell, in Kentucky; the Army of the Tennessee, Major-General Grant, at Forts Henry and Donelson; the Army of the Mississippi, Major-General Pope; and that of General S. R. Curtis, in Southwest Missouri. He posted his chief of staff, General Cullum, at Cairo, and me at Paducah, chiefly to expedite and facilitate the important operations then in progress up the Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers.

Fort Donelson had surrendered to General Grant on the 16th of February, and there must have been a good deal of confusion resulting from the necessary care of the wounded, and disposition of prisoners, common to all such occasions, and there was a real difficulty in communicating between St. Louis and Fort Donelson.

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We steamed up to Fort Henry, the river being high and in splendid order. There I reported in person to General C. F. Smith, and by him was ordered a few miles above, to the remains of the burned railroad bridge, to await the rendezvous of the rest of his army. I had my headquarters on the Continental.

Among my colonels I had a strange character—Thomas Worthington, colonel of the Forty-sixth Ohio. He was a graduate of West Point, of the class of 1827; was, therefore, older than General Halleck, General Grant, or myself, and claimed to know more of war than all of us put together. In ascending the river he did not keep his place in the column, but pushed on and reached Savannah a day before the rest of my division. When I reached that place, I found that Worthington had landed his regiment, and was flying about giving orders, as though he were commander-in-chief. I made him get back to his boat, and gave him to understand that he must thereafter keep his place. General C. F. Smith arrived about the 13th of March, with a large fleet of boats, containing Hurlbut's division, Lew. Wallace's division, and that of himself, then commanded by Brigadier-General W. H. L. Wallace.

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