Identifier: abrahamlincoln05nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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thecovering force of 25,000, would make 55,000 neces-sary for the proper defense of the city, accordingto the judgment of the council of corps command-ers. They confirmed the report of Wadsworththat his efficient force consisted of 19,000, fromwhich General McClellan had ordered eight regi-ments away. They therefore concluded that therequirement of the President, that the city shouldbe left entirely secure, had not been fully compliedwith. In accordance with this report the Presi-dent directed that General McDowells corps shouldnot be sent to the Peninsula until further orders.1 1 General McClellan made in land, under Banks in the Shenan- his report an elaborate effort to doah, all those at Warrenton, at explain away these facts. He Manassas, and on the lower Po- claims to have left a force of tomac. But he does not deny 73,000 for the defense of Wash- the facts stated by Wadsworth ington, including in the number and confirmed by Hitchcock and all the troops under Dix in Mary- Thomas.
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MAP OF FORT DONELSON, AS INVESTED BY GENERAL GRANT; BASED ON THEOFFICIAL MAP BY GENERAL J. B. M« PHERSON. -Opposite page 185. CHAPTER XI FORT DONELSON THE news of the fall of Fort Henry created asudden consternation among the Confederatecommanders in Tennessee. It seemed as if thekeystone had unexpectedly fallen out of their archof well-planned defenses. Generals A. S. Johnston,Beauregard, and Hardee immediately met in a coun-cil of war at Bowling Green, and after full discus-sion united in a memorandum acknowledging thedisaster and resolving on the measures which intheir judgment it rendered necessary. They fore-saw that Fort Donelson would probably also fall;that Johnstons army must retreat to Nashvilleto avoid capture; that since Columbus was nowseparated from Bowling Green, the main army atColumbus must fall back to Humboldt, or possiblyto Grand Junction, leaving only a sufficient garri-son to make a desperate defense of the works andthe river; and immediate orders were issued to

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