Halleck’s messages to Grant were being sent to a telegraph operator in Cairo, Ill., at the end of an advancing telegraph line.
“I am not aware of ever having disobeyed any order from headquarters,” Grant insisted. Grant hadn’t done any of the things Halleck accused him of, and said so in a telegram to his superior after complying with instructions to turn over his command to Smith. I think Smith will restore order and discipline.” “I do not deem it advisable to arrest him at present,” Halleck wrote McClellan in his message, “but have placed General Smith in command of the Tennessee expedition. “If so, it will account for his neglect of my often-repeated orders.” McClellan would have known to what Halleck was referring, that Grant was off on a bender. “A rumor has just reached me that since the taking of Fort Donelson, General Grant has resumed his former bad habits,” he wrote. But Halleck believed he already knew the answer he alluded to it in a telegram informing General George McClellan of his action. He knew nothing about the orders Halleck reportedly had telegraphed from St. He added: “Why do you not obey my orders and report the strength and positions of your command?”
Smith in command of the Union advance and then ordered Grant to quarters at Fort Henry. The upset Halleck wired Grant to place Brig. Halleck launched an investigation to find out why the brigadier general, then directing an advancing Union army farther into Tennessee, was ignoring the orders telegraphed to him. Halleck, who had graduated from West Point in 1839, the year of Grant’s arrival, finally became so annoyed he recommended that Grant-a Northern hero owing to his recent victories at Forts Henry and Donelson-be removed from command. Louis, was increasingly concerned, then downright agitated. Early in the American Civil War, during the first months of 1862, Union General Henry Halleck, commanding from his headquarters in St.
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