The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-28

weiirst concentrated on the Tallahatchie,
below Holly Springs. Grant moved
direct on Pemberton, while l moved
from Memphis and struck directly into
Grenada, and the first thing Pemberton
knew the depot of his supplies was al
most in the grasp of a small cavalry
force, and he fell into confusion, and
gave us the Tallahatchie withoutyat bat-
tie. But with some people an object
| gained without battle is nothing. But
war means success by any and every
means; it is not fighting alone. Bulls do
that, and bears, and all beasts; but men
attain objects by intellect, and the intro
duction of physical power, moved upon
salient points. And SO we gained the
Tallahatchie, and although hardly gun
was fired, yet we gained battle equal in
its results to any other battle OH earth.
(Cheers) 1t gave us uninterrupted pos
session of Northern Mississippi and un-
| djsniited possession OF the sources of that
country; and that country has been in
our possession ever since, in military
sense. iiA %
Then came the great campaign of your
| river, upon which you and aud all OF
us We're more deeply interested than in
any other that can ever be developed by
any war on thiscontnent. Thepossession
Of the Mississippi River is the posses
sion of America [cheers, and say that
had the Southern COniederacy (call 1t
by what name you may)-had thatpow-
er represented by the Southern Confed-
eracy heldwith a grip sufficiently strong
| the lower part of the Mississippi River,
we would have been subjugated peo-
pie, and they would have dictated to us
If we had given up the possession OF the
vac
and we fought lor it and won it. We
determined to have it, but could not go
down with our trail boats past the bat
teries of Vicksburg. TWAS q physical
observation-disclosures what was 10 be
done? After the Tallahatchie line was
carried Vicksburg was the next point.
| I went with small and hastily
collected force, and repeatedly en-
deavored . to make lodgmeht on
the, bluff between Vicksbnrg and
Haines' Bluffs, while Gen. Gr,nt moved
with his main army SO as to place him
self on the high plateau behind Vicks-
burg; but ''nan proposes and COD dis
!. poses," and we failed on that occasion.
I then gathered my hastily-collected
force and went down further, and then,
for the first time, l took General Blair
and his brigade under my command.
On the very day had agreed to be there
was there, and we swung our Hanks
around, and the present Governor OF
Missouri fell prisoner to the enemy on
| that day. We failed. l waited anx-
| iously fora cooperating force inland and
| below us, but they did not come, and
| after / had made the assault learned
| that the depot at Holly Springs had
been bioken up, and that Gen. Grant
had sent me word not to attempt it. But
it was too late. Nevertheless, although
we were unable to carry il al first, there
were ether things to be done. The war
covered such vast area there was plen-
ty to do. thought of that affair at Ar
! Kansas Post, although others claim it,
and they may have it ii they want it.
We cleaned them out there, and General
Grant then brought his whole army to
Vicksburg, and yoa i'll st. Louis reinem-
Der we'll that long winter-how we were
on the levee, with the waters rising and
drowning us like muskrats; how we
we've seeking channels through Deel
Creek and Yazoo Pass, land how we finally
cut canal across the peninsula in frontoi
| Vicksburg But all that Tune the true
movement was the original movement,
and everything not approximating to 1t
came nearer the truth. But we could
not make a retrog9de movement. Why?
Because YOU people OF the North were
toa>poisy. We could not take any sten
backward, and for th.st reason we were
forced to run the batteries at Nieksburg,
/ and make Judgment on the ridges on
some of the bluffs below Vicks5prg. II
is said protested against it. 1t is oily.
never protested i'll my life--nevel..
Laughter. On the contrary, General
Grant rested on me probably more re-
sponsibility even than any other COM
mander under him. For he wrote to me.
~ want you to move upon Hainesi
Bluffs, to enable me to pass to the next
| fort below-Grand Gulf. | hate to ask
you, because the fervor of the North will
accuse you of being rebellious again.
[LaughterJ. / love Grant for his kind.
ness. ! did make the feint on Haines,
Bluffs, and by that means Grant ran the
blockade easily to Grand Gulf, and
made a lodgment down there and
got his army up on the high pla.
teau in the rear of Vicksburg, while
your people here Were beguiled in
to the belief that Sherman was again
repulsed. But we did not repose conf
uehce In everybody. Then followed the
movement on jackson, and the Fourth
of July placed us in possession of that
great stronghold, Vicksburg, and then,
Us Mr.. Lincoln said, the Mississippi
went unvexed to the sea-
From that day to this, this war has
been virtually and properly settled. IL
was certainty, then. They would have
said, 1--WE give up" but Davis would
not 'ratify it, and he had them under
good discipline, and therefore it was ne
cessary to fight again. Then came the
affair OF Chickamauga. The Army ofthe
Mississippi lying long along its banks
were called into new field ofaction, and
SO one morning early got orders to goto
Chattanooga. Ibid not know where it
was hardly. Laughter ! did not
know the road to 90 there. But iouh9
| it, and got there i'll time daughter ana
cheersl; and although my men were
shoeless, and the cold and bitter ir0Stsof
winter were upon us, yet must sui go
| TO Knoxville, tn rteen miles iurther, to
relieve Burnside. That march we made.
"a voice-"And you got therein time,"l
'Than winter forced us to lie quiet. Iur-
;ng that winter took little exercise
doyn tbe river, but that is ofno account.
THE ESTATE OF THE LATE PREsI-
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