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about Price's movements in Missouri and cited as an instance, that he once ordered the depot at Rolla broken up and the troops withdrawn, for fear Price would
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everybody and everything. He (Steele) then a Colonel, but in command at Rolla, appealed to Gen. Halleck, and was allowed to remain; and subsequently Sherman, with his customary frankness, admitted his mistake. So, he said, Sherman in '63, when campaigning around Vicksburg, had little confidence in Grant's famous movement to the rear, via Grand Gulf and the Big Black, though the results were so magnificent. He said Sherman was somewhere up the Yazoo, with Porter and the gun-boats, and from there wrote him (Steele), in command of the Corps during Sherman's absence, that the proposed movement was perilous, and would probably fail, ruining them all; but,
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he added, right loyally,
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We must support Grant _cordially_ and _thoroughly_, dear Steele, whatever happens. Subsequently, after they had landed at Grand Gulf--repulsed Pemberton and hurled him back on Vicksburg--cleaned Joe Johnston out of Jackson and chased him out of the country--and were crossing the Big Black in triumph, the movement now apparently a sure thing, Sherman and he were lying down to rest a little, at a house near the bridge, while the troops were filing over. Presently, an orderly announced Gen. Grant and staff riding by, when Sherman instantly sprang up, and rushing out of the house bareheaded seized Grant by the hand, and shaking it very warmly exclaimed,
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I congratulate you, General, with all my heart, on the success of your movement. And, by heaven, sir, the movement is _yours_, too; for nobody else would endorse it! He added, he never heard of Sherman's
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against the movement, as reported afterwards in the newspapers, and didn't believe he ever had--