Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-27
JOE HOOKER.

JOE HOOKER.
Hts Criticism. on a Netc York Tribune
Correspondent. Gen. Grant and Gen.
Sherman.
To the Editor of the New York Tribune:
MATTHIAS VINEYARD, Mass, Aug. IL
Ny attention has just been called to an
article in your paper, over the name of Will
liam F. G. Shanks, in regard to the battle of
Lookout Mountain. After the lapse of SO
much time since the attic was fought {if
ever am sorry he seems to have forgotten
some of the circumstances necessary to
correct understanding of the fight, and 1
have only moment to call your attention to
a few Of his more prominent omissions in
his narrative, but will refer you for fuller
details to my report of the battle-now on
file in the war department-should you de-
sire to inform yourself further on the sub
ject. On the whole, however, cannot do
less than to thank Mr.. SIanks for the kind
ness in his motives in eapcasiag Inc contro-
versy Gen. Grant has thought proper to
open with ne and my command
in regard to the fight. The
interview said TO have been held with that
gentleman By a correspondent of the Herald
| have always seriously doubted and shall
continue to do SO until more fully confirmed
respecting it. Interviewers have of late dis
played so much cunning and mischief
making in the practice of their pursuits
that l think my incredulity will not appear
strange to you. Gen. Grant has held such
high positions that I am unwilling to be-
ieve that he will voluntarily go back on
himself, or on the troops that served him
with all the ardor and devotion of their ma
lures, as he seems to have done, and which I
can account for in no other way than that he
was In his cups, or that the prospect of a
third term had crazed his brain. OF course.
Gen. Grant will never be charged with
having written or spoken the substance of
the interview as reported to us, for that is
foreign to his style, for any one who has
either read or listened to him can readily dis
cover. l strongly suspect that the inter
viewer was g coached . by another officer of
the army of high rank, whose peculiar mode
of warfare for some time past has been of
this covert character.
But before calling your attention 10 some
of what | consider inaccuracies in Mr.
Shanks' letter, may premise briefly by say
ing that it was not the intention of the gen
eral-in-chief for any part of the Army of the
Potomac to take a leading role in the opera
tons around Chattanooga, which fact 1 was
not aware of until my command was divided
and the Eleventh corps of it sent across the
Tennessee to reinforce Gen. Sherman, who,
with the Army of the Tennessee, was operat-
ing on the opposite extremity OF the enemy's
line: and then you will see by my report that
applied to 60 with the Eleventh corps, as
they were going into battle.
subsequently the river got up, carried
away the driftwood and broke the bridges
before all OF Sherman's army had crossed,
and then it was determined aud not till then,
that might make, with one division of the
Twelfth corps and two divisions of other
armies, demonstration on Lockout Noun
tain. Gen. Grant had previously commune
Gated design to attack Lockout Mountain,
but, after division of my command,
it is clear and satisfactory that his original
through the intervention of Divine Proyi-
dence that an opportunity was presented me
for attack. Thus, you see, ''man often pro
poses but God disposes.' -
| d d attack and carried Lookout Noun
tain, and this was the first assurance to Gen.
Grant that he was to be successful in all his
operations around Chattanooga, although
Gen. Sherman had repeatedly informed him
of successes which were never realized.
Cantoin Van Hor,,s history IF Tho arny
of the Cumberland will present Won with all
of tho eoo+o ona lno, 49,, ~ IL ST.
o., C.ra,,4 60 i"o W.
contrary Notwithstanding.
Gen. Grant, as we'll as some other officers
high in rank, is famous for er-thoughts. as
you will find on critical examination. We
had, and presume still have, rings in the
army as we'll as out of it.
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| term by the circulation of sncb in,,,osino ard
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