X. in Halleck's Education of the Central Nervous System.

Hooker, feeling his incompetency, and on bad terms with Halleck, the general-in-chief, asked to be relieved, and his request was at once granted.

Then followed his expedition, assisted by Commodore Foote, against Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, in the early part of 1862, with no encouragement from Halleck, the commanding-general at St. Louis.

Compare Halleck with Grant or Sherman!

So, at last, did Halleck speak "ve'y fav'ble" of Grant.

It certainly placed him in open antagonism to General Halleck, the Federal Secretary of War, and, as this antagonism had a direct effect upon even connected with the subject of our memoir, we shall briefly relate now it was now displayed.

The proof of McClellan's desire to undertake this movement, which afterward proved so successful under General Grant, is found in a memorandum, by General Halleck himself, of what took place on a visit paid by him to McClellan, at Harrison's Landing, on July 25, 1862.

Profoundly outraged and indignant at these cruel and oppressive acts, General Lee, by direction of the Confederate authorities, addressed, on the 2d of August, the following note to General Halleck: HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE C.S., /

New orders cameGeneral Halleck appearing to regard the difficulties urged by General McClellan as imaginary.

The occasion of this unexpected event seems to have been a difference of opinion between himself and General Halleck, the Federal general-in-chief, on the question whether the fortifications at Harper's Ferry should or should not be abandoned.

Seeing the situation in another light, however, General Halleck in charge in the West excluded slaves from the Union lines, at first, as did General Dix in Virginia.

But Halleck, in his instructions to General McCullum, February, 1862, ordered him to put contrabands to work to pay for food and clothing.

General Grant, also, while admitting the binding force of General Halleck's order, refused to grant permits to those in search of fugitives seeking asylum within his lines and at the capture of Fort Donelson ordered the retention of all blacks who had been used by the Confederates in building fortifications.

Fitz-Greene Halleck, 1795-1869 346.

Meanwhile he had organized the Eagle Guard, one of the first independent military companies in the State, and had also been successively promoted from adjutant to ordnance officer, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, on Major-General Halleck's staff of the State Militia.

D. Appleton & Co. Fitz Greene Halleck's Poems.

Why was a slow-minded closet-student like Halleck permitted to fritter away in the long-drawn-out operations against Corinth the advantage of position and of force that had been secured by the army of the West?

As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order.

Greeley, Horace, 105 Greene, Frank V., on Lincoln, 106 H Halleck, Gen. H.W., 103 Hallowell, Col. Norwood, 116 Hamilton, Alexander, 245 Hancock, Gen. W.S., 127 Harper's Ferry, 124; John Brown's raid at, 254 Helper, H.R., the "Impending Crisis" of, 258 Hewitt, Abram S., 99 ff.

SEE St. Clair, Mabelle Halleck.

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Major-General H.W. HALLECK Commanding in the Department of Missouri.

Ordered, That Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command the whole land forces of the United States as General in Chief, and that he repair to this capital as soon as he can with safety to the positions and operations within the department under his charge.

By command of Major-General Halleck: F.D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General.