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Hace 5 días · The pinnacle of his military career was his appointment as the General -in-Chief of all the Union armies on July 23, 1862. When he commanded the Department of the Missouri, he replaced Major Gen. John C. Frémont. His enlarged command won victories at Pea Ridge, Island #10, and Shiloh.
Hace 1 día · The two Union armies in the Battle of Shiloh were part of the Department of the Mississippi, which was commanded by Major General Henry Halleck. Although Halleck hoped to lead the two armies in an eventual attack on Corinth, he was not present at Shiloh. [20]
Hace 2 días · Meanwhile, Federal General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant, headquartered with the Army of the Potomac, learned of Sigel’s defeat at New Market. Sigel’s performance was an embarrassment to the Federal high command, but Grant nevertheless wrote Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck that he wanted Sigel to keep his Federals around Staunton so that they could disrupt the flow of supplies from the Valley ...
Hace 1 día · The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant 's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area near Locust Grove, Virginia, about 20 ...
Hace 4 días · I have been doing a bit of research on the US Civil War’s 1862 Fort Henry/Fort Donelson campaign recently and went down one of those rabbit holes that historians tend to get caught in. It focused on tracking down a wayward letter Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote wrote to his wife Caroline. I found the letter in Foote’s most recent biography.
Hace 3 días · Meanwhile, the Union forces in Missouri, previously occupied in the North-central and western parts of the state chasing Gen. Sterling Price, were now under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck. Halleck put together a plan for collapsing the Confederate western flank, which included the Mississippi River defenses at Island No. 10 and New Madrid.
Hace 4 días · He lost his Kentucky command, but, with the support of General Henry Halleck, he then served as a divisional commander under General Ulysses S. Grant. Sherman distinguished himself at the Battle of Shiloh (April 6–7, 1862) and won promotion to the rank of major general.
