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.

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.

In December, he was put on leave by Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, commander of the Department of the Missouri, who considered him unfit for duty.

By mid-December, Sherman was sufficiently recovered to return to service under Halleck in the Department of the Missouri.

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.

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

The main building was originally called Reuben Post Halleck Hall and was home to the Louisville Girls High School before it merged with Manual.

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.

He was able to deceive Halleck into thinking the Confederates were about to attack ; he ran empty trains back and forth through the town while whistles blew and troops cheered as if massive reinforcements were arriving.

Along with Charles Halleck and later Gerald Ford ( the Republican Minority Leaders of the House ), Dirksen was the official voice of the Republican Party during most of the 1960s, and he was often featured on television news programs.

When preparations for the 1864 Red River expedition were far advanced, Halleck wrote Banks he was withdrawing any suggestion as to action after receiving from Banks a detailed negative report about the operation.

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.

According to the prequels, Gurney Halleck was born on Giedi Prime, the homeworld of House Harkonnen.

When the general got into a dispute with Army headquarters over the status of defensive forces in Harpers Ferry, he impulsively offered his resignation in protest, which was quickly accepted by Lincoln and General-in-chief Henry W. Halleck.

The Stick made a disguised appearance in David Lynch's film, Dune as Gurney Halleck's baliset, though the scene where Halleck ( played by Patrick Stewart ) actually plays the instrument was removed from the theatrical version and can only be seen in the extended versions.

On the way to his new post, he made a courtesy call to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck in St. Louis, who commandeered his services to audit the financial records of his immediate predecessor, Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, whose administration of the Department of the Missouri was tainted by charges of wasteful expenditures and fraud that left the status of $ 12 million in doubt.

In December, Sheridan was appointed chief commissary officer of the Army of Southwest Missouri, but convinced the department commander, Halleck, to give him the position of quartermaster general as well.

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.

Following dramatic Republican losses in the 1958 election cycle, which placed a return to majority status out of reach ( for thirty-six more years, as it turned out, until the 1994 Republican Revolution ), Martin was ousted from the leadership by Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, whom Martin had befriended after Halleck's election to the House.

Henry Wager Halleck (; January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872 ) was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer.

Halleck, by nature a cautious general, but also judging that Grant's reputation for alcoholism in the prewar Army made him unreliable, rejected Grant's plans.

Made cautious by the staggering losses at Shiloh, Halleck embarked on a tedious campaign of offensive entrenchment, fortifying after each advance.

* 1815 – Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general ( d. 1872 )

* January 9 – Henry Halleck, American general ( b. 1815 )

* January 16 – Henry Halleck, American general ( d. 1872 )

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 ).

Halleck obtained a promotion for him to major general of volunteers, along with some other generals in his department, and used the victory as an opportunity to request overall command in the Western Theater, which he currently shared with Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, but which was not granted.

Abraham Lincoln said that he had given Halleck full power and responsibility as general in chief.

On March 12, 1864, after Ulysses S. Grant, Halleck's former subordinate in the West, was promoted to lieutenant general and general in chief, Halleck was relegated to chief of staff, responsible for the administration of the vast U. S. armies.

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

) On March 21, he was promoted to major general of volunteers, but Buell lost his independent status when his command was incorporated within the new Department of the Mississippi, under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck.

When major general Henry W. Halleck ( a personal friend of Connor's ) became the general-in-chief of the Union armies, Connor pleaded that his men had enlisted to fight traitors.

After the Siege of Corinth in May 1862, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck was promoted to be general in chief of the Union Army and Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant replaced him in command at Corinth, Mississippi.

Paul also reunites with Gurney Halleck, who had sought refuge with smugglers after the Harkonnen attack.

Halleck was born on a farm in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, third child of 14 of Joseph Halleck, a lieutenant who served in the War of 1812, and Catherine Wager Halleck.

After spending a few years improving the defenses of New York Harbor, he wrote a report for the United States Senate on seacoast defenses, Report on the Means of National Defence, which pleased General Winfield Scott, who rewarded Halleck with a trip to Europe in 1844 to study European fortifications and the French military.

Halleck established an uncomfortable relationship with the man who would become his most successful subordinate and future commander, Brig.

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.

Pope, who established a reputation as a braggart early in the war, was able to generate significant press interest in his minor victory, which brought him to the attention of Frémont's replacement, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck.

Lane was severely criticized for his actions in Osceola, most severely by General Henry Halleck, Commander of the Department of Missouri Of their actions, he would state: " The course pursued by those under Lane and Jennison has turned against us many thousands who were formerly Union men.

The Federal gunboats were members of the Western Gunboat Flotilla, commanded directly by Flag Officer Charles H. Davis, who reported to Major General Henry W. Halleck.

Following this battle, a Court of Inquiry was held, and both President Abraham Lincoln and Halleck desired to know who disobeyed the orders to " evacuate Winchester ".

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.

Halleck briefly returned to Florida in 1850 to try to negotiate with Chief Billy Bowlegs, who was still opposing resettlement.

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.

Charles Halleck was married to Blanche Annetta White, who died in 1973.