Excerpt from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Vol. 2 Importance of unity in command - Inevitable difficulties in a double organization - Burnside's problem different from that of Rosecrans - Co-operation necessarily imperfect - Growth of Grant's reputation - Solid grounds of it - Special orders sent him - Voyage to Cairo - Meets Stanton at Louisville - Division of the Mississippi created - It included Burnside's and Rosecrans's departments - Alternate forms in regard to Rosecrans - He is relieved - Thomas succeeds him - Grant's relations to the change - His intellectual methods - Taciturnity - Patience - Discussions in his presence - Clear judgments - His "good anecdote" - Rosecrans sends Garfield to Washington - Congressman or General - Duplication of offices - Interview between Garfield and Stanton - Dana's dispatches - Garfield's visit to me - Description of the rout of Rosecrans's right wing - Effect on the general - Retreat to Chattanooga - Lookout Mountain abandoned - The President's problem - Dana's light upon it - Stanton's use of it - Grant's acquiescence - Subsequent relations of Garfield and Rosecrans - Improving the "cracker line" - Opening the Tennessee - Combat at Wauhatchie. It is very evident that, at the close of September, Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Stanton had become satisfied that a radical change must be made in the organization of the Western armies. The plan of sending separate armies to co-operate, as Rosecrans's and Burnside's had been expected to do, was in itself vicious. It is, after a fashion, an attempt of two to ride a horse without one of them riding behind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.