Word: halleck
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fiske delivered in Sanders Theatre last evening the second in his series of lectures on the Western Campaigns of the Civil War. Beginning immediately after the battle of Shiloh, he described the naval operations about New Orleans, Halleck's supreme command in the West, and finally the battle of Stone River or Murfreesboro...
...river was now opened up, as far as Vicksburg, and here the river fleet from above joined Farragut, and the only thing that was needed for the capture of Vicksburg and the conquest of the Mississippi, once for all, was a strong land force. But Halleck was in command and here, as always, he was timid, irresolute. In the west was Vicksburg; in eastern Tennessee was Chattanooga. A great general with Halleck's advantages would have taken both; any prompt courageous man would have taken one; but Halleck straddled between the two and lost both. As a result...
...this time Grant became commander-in-chief in the West in place of Halleck, who went to the Army of the Potomac...
Grant immediately went on with his triumphs and Rosecrans, under him, won such successes at Iuka and Corinth, that he supersceded Buell. The latter had lost his position, a victim to misfortune and unjust treatment at the hands of Halleck...
More important events followed. Grant, Sherman and Buell were soon advancing upon Fort Henry, which guarded the Tennessee river. Halleck, as usual, was afrald and undecided, but Grant with 17,000 men, aided by Commodore Foote with seven gun-boats, swooped down on Foote with seven gun-boats, swooped down on Fort Henry. The surprise was complete. Gillman, who commanded the fort, saw he could not hold out, and sending most of his garrison to reinforce Fort Donelson, he surrendered...