Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-21
Tbe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Grant DImculty.
+ There has been for some time past In
southwestern military circles some kind
of an imhroglio in which Geu. Grant ap.
pears to be mixed up good deal. We
dOu't know exactly the nature of it. The
Cincinnati Gazette says tits purely militia
~, and grew out of matters officially COM
municatSd to the COmmander-tn-Ch Chief
The Fort Henry correspondent of that
paper makes the following statement;
Amer the taking of Fort DOnelson, Gen.
Grant was transferred from the command
of the district Of Cairo in the Depart.
ment OF Missouri, to the "District"-not
the Department, as has been recently stat
ed in the paPers-the "District of West
Tennessee"
simultaneously Gen. Buell., who had
then arrived at Nashville, called on Gen.
Graut for achievements, and even went
as far as to order up Gen. Smith from
ClarksVille. Gen. Grant went up to Nash
vile to see about il, when Baeli discover
ed tha: Grant was a Major General, and if
he came into the department would take
the command by superiority OF rank. OF
course, in this state of the case, he didn't
want Grant, but he would still have liked
to get Smiths brigade from GAINESVILLE, till
he was informed that Smith would be a
Major General in few days. Naturally
enough his orders to Smith were with
drawn.
Preparations now went on for an expe-
dition up the Tennessee river. Gen. Grant,
OF course, was expected to command it in
person.
To rverybody's surprise, however, an or
der comes from Washington, requiring
Gen. Grant to remain at headquarters, and
TO give over the command of the forces 10
the field to Maj. Geu. Smith. Gen. Grant
regards this as Il direct and severe rebuke
from headquarters for something. He said
yesterday he supposed it to be because he
had gone out of his District M to Nash.
vile. Its effect, at any rate, is TO place
him in virtual retiracy. Nothing can be
undertaken in the District without Geu.
Halleck's sanction, and as Smith com.
mands in the execution of Halleck's plans,
Grant is left little better than n go-between
between the two officers.
COnjectures as to the reasons of this new
turn of affairs are rife. 1t is because
Grant ordered Nelson to Nashville with his
fleet, say come. Because be went TO NASH
vile, himself, say others. Because Buell.
Is Jealous of him, and has been straiuiug
az mllltaTy puuctilIo. Because he neglect
ed to forward his official report of Donel-
son at the proper time Because he has
won one victory, and another might make
him dangerous rival to some other Gen.
erals who haven't won any. Because the
secret history of DouelsoR, it is limited, has
led the commanding Generals to doubt the
ptoPriety of intrusling him with any inn
portant movement And SD the wild
guesses run.
Between Gems. Grant and Smith the best
of feeling is said to exist, aud Gen. Smith
IS represented as expressing himself quite
warmly as to the injustice Of the treatment
Grant is receiving.
The following is written four days later
by the same correspondent, as a up. S." to
the above:
1t has been impossible sooner to get this
mailed, and meantime the Grant imbroglio
has taken a new turn. Word comes up
this morning that the difficulties, whatey-
er they are, have been adjusted, aud that
Gen. GRANTS TO arrive this morning, to as
sumo the command in person. Doubtless
It will be found that, whatever!be may have
been charged with, the charges were too
frivolous or untrue to warrant keeping him
out of active service.