In early March, Union Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, then commander of the Department of the Missouri, responded by ordering Grant to advance his Army of West Tennessee ( soon to be known by its more famous name, the Army of the Tennessee ) on an invasion up the Tennessee River.

He spent several months in California constructing fortifications, then was first exposed to combat on November 11, 1847, during Shubrick's capture of the port of Mazatlán ; Lt. Halleck served as lieutenant governor of the occupied city.

The Army did not attempt to take Vicksburg until November, and then it was under the leadership of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, after Halleck had been called to Washington to replace McClellan as General-in-Chief.

On June 2, Halleck telegraphed that if Rosecrans was unwilling to move, some of his troops would be sent to Mississippi to reinforce Grant, who by then was besieging Vicksburg, but was potentially threatened by the army of Joseph E. Johnston to his rear.

Rosecrans's plan was to absorb the expected Confederate advance with a skirmish line at the old Confederate entrenchments and to then meet the bulk of the Confederate attack with his main force along the Halleck Line, about a mile from the center of town.

Now having command over Buell's Army of the Ohio, Halleck ordered Buell to concentrate with Grant.

But a message from General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck directed him to attack and he ordered an advance on Lee's forces on the Manassas field.

Gen. Horatio G. Wright in August 1862, but because of Wright's junior rank, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck ordered Thomas to replace Wright in command.

On February 25, 1862, General Halleck ordered Confederate officers transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, which left Camp Douglas as a prison camp only for enlisted men.

On February 26, 1862, General Halleck ordered Colonel Tucker to report to Springfield, Illinois and a Union Army officer from Illinois, Colonel James A. Mulligan, took command of the camp until June 14, 1862.

Following Belmont, Grant asked Gen. Henry Halleck for permission to move against Ft. Henry ; Halleck agreed on condition that the attack be conducted with oversight by Union Navy Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

Gen. Halleck transferred command of the Army of the Tennessee to Gen. George H. Thomas and effectively demoted Grant to the hollow position of second-in-command of all the armies of the west.

In December 1862, with the approval of Halleck, Grant moved to take Vicksburg by an overland route, aided by Charles Hamilton and James McPherson, in combination with a water expedition on the Mississippi led by Maj. Gen. Sherman.

Grant's superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, was concerned about Confederate reinforcements retaking the forts, so Grant left Wallace with his brigade in command at Fort Henry while the rest of the army moved overland toward Fort Donelson.

Both Grant and his superior, Halleck, placed the blame squarely on Wallace, saying that his incompetence in moving up the reserves had nearly cost them the battle.

His performance was praised by Grant and Halleck and after the battle, he was promoted to major general of volunteers, effective May 1, 1862.

Shortly after the Union forces occupied Corinth on May 30, Sherman persuaded Grant not to leave his command, despite the serious difficulties he was having with Halleck.

* Schenker, Carl R., Jr., « Ulysses in His Tent: Halleck, Grant, Sherman, and The Turning Point of the War », Civil War History ( June 2010 ), vol.

Grant wrote to Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck, " It was the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war.

Grant was temporarily disgraced by the surprise attack and near defeat, causing his superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, to assume field command of the combined armies.

Various writers assert that Halleck took this step because of professional and personal animosity toward Grant.

However, Halleck shortly restored Grant to full command, perhaps influenced by an inquiry from President Abraham Lincoln.

There is no evidence Halleck provided the negative report on the Red River to Grant, who was being asked for input on overall operations at the time.

" On April 22, 1864, Grant wired Chief of Staff Halleck asking for Banks's removal.

The victor at Shiloh, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, came under severe criticism for the bloody battle and his superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, reorganized his Department of the Mississippi to ease Grant out of direct field command.

Unbeknownst to Sheridan, he was actually Grant's second choice, after Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, but Grant agreed to a suggestion about Sheridan from Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck.

On January 4, he launched a combined army-navy movement on Arkansas Post, rather than Vicksburg, as he had told Lincoln ( and did not bother to inform Grant or the general in chief, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck ).

On January 3, 1865, Union General Henry Halleck wrote to General Ulysses Grant regarding Beall:

However, under pressure from President Lincoln to take offensive action, Halleck reconsidered and Grant conducted operations with naval and land forces against Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, capturing both, along with 14, 000 Confederates.

On April 22, 1839, Halleck and other Seminole leaders met with Maj. Gen. Alexander Macomb, the new military commander in Florida, and received written assurance that their people could indefinitely remain in Florida if they stayed near Lake Okeechobee.

After the 1964 election, Halleck was defeated in his bid to remain Minority Leader by Gerald Ford, who was the leader of a younger faction.

Halleck cautiously and slowly approached Beauregard's fortifications at Corinth ; his action became derisively called the Siege of Corinth.

Since Halleck approached so cautiously, digging entrenchments at every stop for over a month, this action has been known as the Siege of Corinth.

Eventually, after a string of conflicts and the death of Earl Dominic Vernius, Gurney Halleck arrived at the Atreides homeworld of Caladan seeking the exiled Prince Rhombur Vernius.

While encamped at Searcy, Curtis and overall commander Major General Henry W. Halleck began to correspond about the upcoming Federal administration of Little Rock.

Returning home a first lieutenant, Halleck gave a series of twelve lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston that were subsequently published in 1846 as Elements of Military Art and Science.

Halleck was soon appointed military secretary of state, a position which made him the governor's representative at the 1849 convention in Monterey where the California state constitution was written.

Grant was under public attack over the slaughter at Shiloh, and Halleck replaced Grant as a wing commander and assigned him instead to serve as second-in-command of the entire 100, 000 man force, a job which Grant complained was a censure and akin to an arrest.

In Washington, Halleck continued to excel at administrative issues and facilitated the training, equipping, and deployment of thousands of Union soldiers over vast areas.

A telling example of his lack of control was during the Northern Virginia Campaign of 1862, when Halleck was unable to motivate McClellan to reinforce Pope in a timely manner, contributing to the Union defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Their orders stated that Halleck had been relieved as general in chief " at his own request.

After Grant forced Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Halleck was assigned to command the Military Division of the James, headquartered at Richmond.

Henry Halleck died at his post in Louisville.

In November 1840 Gen. Armistead had met at Fort King with Tiger Tail ( Thlocklo Tustenuggee ), a Muskogee speaker, and Halleck Tustenuggee, a Mikasuki speaker.

Halleck Tustenuggee was held prisoner when he showed up at Fort King for a talk.

On the previous occasion, Reynolds wrote in a private letter, " If we do not get some one soon who can command an army without consulting ' Stanton and Halleck ' at Washington, I do not know what will become of this Army.

Halleck had to continually prod Buell to get his army to Pittsburg Landing in order to reinforce Grant, concentrating for a planned attack on the Confederate stronghold at Corinth.

Other notable Union alumni include: Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg ( 1946 ), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; Henry Wager Halleck ( 1837 ), chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War ; William F. Fox ( 1869 ) Superintendent of Forests at the Adirondack Park in New York State ; Howard Simons ( 1951 ), managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era ; Nikki Stone ( 1995 ), winner of a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics for aerial skiing ; and Armand V. Feigenbaum ( 1942 ), American businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management ( TQM ).

" Also in November, John Fremont lost his command at St. Louis, to be replaced by Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, whose command was designated the Department of the Missouri.

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