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Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s for his departure. He left Washington, with hisstaff, on the evening of March 11th, for the West. The day after, the following order was promulgated:— War Department, Adjutant-Generals Office, ;Washington, March 12,1864. The President of the United States orders as follows: I. Major-General Halleck is, at his own request, relieved from duty asGeneral-in-Chief of the Army, and Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant isassigned to the command of the Armies of the United States. The head-quarters of the Army will he in Washington, and also with Lieutenant-General Grant in the field. II. Major-General Halleck is assigned to duty in Washington, as Chiefof Staff of the Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War and theLieutenant-General commanding. His orders will be obeyed and respectedaccordingly. III. Major-General W. T. Sherman is assigned to the command of themilitary division of the Mississippi, composed of the Departments of theOhio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas.
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THE ORDER FOR A NEW PROGRAMME OF WAR. 433 IV. Major-General J. B. McPherson is assigned to the command of theDepartment and Army of the Tennessee. V. In relieving Major-General Halleck from duty as General-in-Chief,the President desires to express his approbation and thanks for the zealousmanner in which the arduous and responsible duties of that position havebeen performed. By order of the Secretary of War. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. No military order of this war was more satisfactorythan this, appointing Lieutenant-General Grant to the com-mand of the Armies of the United States. Not the leastagreeable feature of it was the announcement of head-quarters in Washington with General Grant in the field.He was still to lead in person, and the name which wasthe omen of success to his soldiers was still to be theirrallying cry in battle. 28 434 LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL GRANT. CHAPTER XXI. GENERAL GRANT AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.—ITS LEADING GENERALS. A Ball-room o

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