..." I have no doubt that nothing will occur to-day receiving this report Grant telegraphed Halleck: " I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place. General Nelson's division has arrived. The other...

...before the attack (April 5) he telegraphed to Halleek : "The main force of the enemy is at Corinth." "I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place." * At three o'clock that afternoon, he said to...

...before the attack (April 5) he telegraphed to Halleek : "The main force of the enemy is at Corinth." "I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place." x At three o'clock that afternoon, he said to...

...it over. His reassuring wire that night to Halleck said: "The main force of the enemy is at Corinth. I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us." But the skirmishing farther south on Friday had warned Grant, as well as Sherman and the vigilant Prentiss,...

...it over. His reassuring wire that night to Halleck said: "The main force of the enemy is at Corinth. I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us." But the skirmishing farther south on Friday had warned Grant, as well as Sherman and the vigilant Prentiss,...

...it over. His reassuring wire that night to Halleck said: "The main force of the enemy is at Corinth. I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us." But the skirmishing farther south on Friday had warned Grant, as well as Sherman and the vigilant Prentiss,...

...earthworks. He put raw levies at the front. He telegraphed to Halleck on Saturday night (April 5th), " 1 have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us." The army, catching the contagion of his confidence, perhaps neglected to keep out scouts in the front....

...what would seem to have been fair enough warning from this incident, he remarked in the same dispatch: "I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place." To Major-General William Nelson, who arrived...

...Corinth." ' That day he wrote to Halleck, announcing the arrival of Nelson's division, and added : " I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place." * Yet the very same day he estimated " the number...

...reconnaissances in force in recent days, and reassured by Sherman, wrote Halleck on the same evening: "I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place."43 Despite such a staunch avowal of preparedness,...