The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-21


department and the Army of the
Cumberland in place of Rosecrons.
His next was to telegraph Thomas
to hold Chattanooga at all hazards;
that he would be there as soon as
possible. To which old Gen.
Thomas replied: II will hold the
town till we starve." On the 23d
of October, 1868, Grant reached
Chattanooga. Burnside was at Knox
vile. Sherman was on his way
from Vicksburg with all the avail
able force at his command, and
Hooker was moving from the cast
with two corps. A column of the
enemy moved against Knoxville.
BY the 18th of November Grant had
his forces well in hand and ready
for an assault. Rains and storms
prevented this for few days; but
on the 23d he assaulted Lookout
Mountain, the men climbing from
crag to crag, and from tree to tree,
until finally they were on the crest
of the ridge; the rebels retreated,
and they planted the flag of the
Republic thereon. The oath and
25th the battle of Mission Ridge
was fought and the enemy COM
pletely routed.
A portion of the armies of the
East and West and Center, combin-
ing, fought side by side, bravely as
men ever fought. Passing through
the dangers of that great battle
linked them together in bonds of
friendship which have lasted until
now. After he had defeated Bragg,
and driven him back from this
stronghold, Grant commenced
maturing plans for the great final
campaigns. He began by ordering
Sherman back to Vicksburg also
large force to march from Corinth
down along the railroad to jackson,
destroying the road as they went.
Sherman was ordered with his force
from Vicksburg in the direction of
Meridian, in order that the railroad
and lines of communication in that
part of the country might be des
troyed, so that when he commenced
his campaign in contemplation he
could withdraw all the troops from
there and concentrate them into one
grand army to march against the
enemy in the center.
The troops under Thomas were
assisting in guarding the railroads
and lines of communication north
from Chattanooga and west to De-
catur. He directed Thomas, while
the railroads were being destroyed
from Corinth to Vicksburg south
and east from Vicksburg, to keep up
a continuous demonstration in the
enemy's front, so as to deceive him
into the belief that an advance was
to be made very soon. He also
directed me to cooperate with
Thomas. l then being in command
of the Fifteenth Corps. with my
headquarters at Huntsville, Ala,
sent force by his orders in the
direction of Rome, Ga. At the same
time we were notified to he ready at
the earliest possible moment in the
Spring for general advance. His
idea was then to move from Chatta-
nooga to Atlanta, and then to Mo-
bile, unless something should inter-
vene in the meantime to change the
plan and force him to move in the
direction of Savannah from Atlanta.
Grant said in letter during that
Winter that sharp fighting would
occur in the Spring, and if our army
was successful the war would be
ended in a year.
Grant was now made Lieutenant
General and placed by the President
of the United States in command OF
the armies of the Republic. But one
single person had ever held the
position prior to Grant; that was
George Washington. Winfield Scott
merely had the brevet. On the Bro
day of March, 1864, he was ordered
to Washington. His intention al
that time was to return from Wash
ington and lead the armies of Sher
man, Thomas and Schofield to At
lanta in person. Unforeseen events
however, changed his intention O
leading the army himself, and forced
him to the East. His campaign
however, was carried out almost tt
the letter, but by other hands
Grant received his commission a
Lieutenant-General from the hands
of President Lincoln in the presenc'
of the Cabinet. On the 10th o
March he was at the front in Vir
GINA; on the 18th he was back a
Nashville, Tenn, giving instruc
tions to Sherman. On the 18th h
assumed supreme command of al
the armies, and on the 23rd he wa
at Washington, and at once proceed
ed to make his headquarters in tn
field at Culpeper, Va. Heretofor
the campaigns of the different armie
had been conducted without any re