...should order me to be relieved I will submit without a murmur. A terrible storm, freezing rain, has come on since daylight, which will render an attack impossible until it breaks." Halleck instantly — at 4.10 PM same day — telegraphed Grant as follows : " Orders relieving General...

...this. And if he should order me to be relieved, I will submit without a murmur. A terrible storm has come on since daylight, which will render an attack impossible until it breaks." -j~An order was actually made, by the direction of General Grant, relieving General Thomas from his...

...should hear further. I hope most sincerely that there will be no necessity of repeating the order, and that the facts will show that you have been right all the time. .. US- GRANT, Lieutenant-General. But while the sleet storm was still at its height, and when every...

...should order me to be relieved I will submit without a murmur. A terrible storm of freezing rain has come on since daylight, which will render an attack impossible until it breaks. GEO. H. THOMAS, Major-General, U. 8. Volunteers, Commanding. NASHVILLE, TENN., December 9, 1864 —...

...should hear further. I hope most sincerely that there will be no necessity of repeating the order, and that the facts will show that you have been right all the time." Notwithstanding the radical difference in judgment between the general and his distinguished subordinate,...

...should order me to be relieved I will submit without a murmur. A terrible storm of freezing rain has come on since daylight which will render an attack impossible until it breaks." 8 To this despatch and to a similar one direct to himself, Grant thus replied : " I have as much confidence...

...should order me to be relieved I will submit without a murmur. A terrible storm of freezing rain has come on since daylight, which will render an attack impossible until it breaks.1 Thomas had already at an earlier hour sent the following reply to Grant, but it will be noted...

...should order me to be relieved I shall submit without a murmur. A terrible storm of freezing rain has come on since daylight which will render an attack impossible until it breaks." Grant suspended the order, but after two days' further waiting, with eager interchange of telegrams,...

...should hear further. I hope most sincerely that there will be no necessity of repeating the order and that the facts will show that you have been right all the time. US GRANT Lt. Gn. To Edwin M. Stanton Washington City, Dec. 18th /<ft*4 Hon EM Stanton In my opinion...

...would "submit without a murmur." And, by the way, he concluded, "A terrible storm of freezing rain has come on since daylight, which will render an attack impossible until it breaks."46 Before he had heard Thomas's latest excuse, Grant had decided that Slow Trot had to go and...