MILITARY REMINISCENCES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
BY
JACOB DOLSON COX,A.M., LL.D.
Formerly Major-General commandingTwenty-Third Army Corps
VOLUME II.
NOVEMBER 1863-JUNE 1865
CONTENTS
GRANT IN COMMAND--ROSECRANS RELIEVED
Importance of unity in command--Inevitable difficulties in a doubleorganization--Burnside's problem different from that ofRosecrans--Co-operation necessarily imperfect--Growth of Grant'sreputation--Solid grounds of it--Special orders sent him--Voyage toCairo--Meets Stanton at Louisville--Division of the Mississippicreated--It included Burnside's and Rosecrans's departments--Alternateforms in regard to Rosecrans--He is relieved--Thomas succeedshim--Grant's relations to the change--His intellectualmethods--Taciturnity--Patience--Discussions in his presence--Clearjudgments--His "good anecdote"--Rosecrans sends Garfield toWashington--Congressman or General--Duplication of offices--Interviewbetween Garfield and Stanton--Dana's dispatches--Garfield's visit tome--Description of the rout of Rosecrans's right wing--Effect on thegeneral--Retreat to Chattanooga--Lookout Mountain abandoned--ThePresident's problem--Dana's light upon it--Stanton's use of it--Grant'sacquiescence--Subsequent relations of Garfield and Rosecrans--Improvingthe "cracker line"--Opening the Tennessee--Combat at Wauhatchie.
SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE--END OF BURNSIDE'S CAMPAIGN
Departments not changed by Grant--Sherman assigned to that of theTennessee--Burnside's situation and supplies--Hiscommunications--Building a railroad--Threatened from Virginia--Hisplans--Bragg sends Longstreet into East Tennessee--Theircross-purposes--Correspondence of Grant and Burnside--Dana and Wilsonsent to consult--Grant approves Burnside's course--Latter slowly retireson Knoxville--The place prepared for a siege--Combat at Campbell'sstation--Within the lines at Knoxville--Topography of theplace--Defences--Assignment of positions--The forts--General Sanderskilled--His self-sacrifice--Longstreet's lines of investment--Hisassault of Fort Sanders--The combat--The repulse--The victory atMissionary Ridge and results--Division of Confederate forces amistake--Grant sends Sherman to raise the siege of Knoxville--EastTennessee a "horror"--Longstreet retreats toward Virginia--Shermanrejoins Grant--Granger's unwillingness to remain--General Foster sent torelieve Burnside--Criticism of this act--Halleck's misunderstanding ofthe real situation--Grant's easy comprehension of it--His conduct inenlarged responsibility--General Hunter's inspection report.
AFFAIRS IN DISTRICT OF OHIO--PLOT TO LIBERATE PRISONERS AT JOHNSON'SISLAND
Administrative duties--Major McLean adjutant-general--His loyaltyquestioned--Ordered away--Succeeded by Captain Anderson--RobertAnderson's family--Vallandigham canvass--Bounty-jumping--Action of U. S.Courts--of the local Probate Court--Efforts to provokecollision--Interview with the sheriff--Letter to Governor Tod--Shootingsoldiers in Dayton--The October election--Great majority againstVa