Lew Wallace An Autobiography V2 Author:Lew Wallace Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LVIII No pursuit—Arrival of General Halleck—The meeting—At Shiloh Run—The book on tactics—Bcauregard—General Grant after Shiloh — Halleck commander - in - chi... more »ef — The visit of Halleck's orderlies—The criticism. The pursuit anticipated was not undertaken; exactly why I did not know. Since coming to a better understanding of the situation, however, it has been my surmise that after the battle General Grant was as much under General Halleck's order not to do anything as before it. On April llth, or thereabouts, a report spread through both armies that General Halleck had arrived. I waited a few days for the great man to settle in headquarters; then I summoned courage to call upon him. I found him in the midst of staff-officers, clerks, and orderlies. Everything appurtenant — tents, furniture, men, and horses—looked enviably fresh and new. I took him to be several degrees on the western side of the meridian of life. He asked no questions of me, but indulged in very positive speech of the great things he would now give me to see. Indeed, what he said would in any other person have been boastful; but I excused him. The Army of the Tennessee, to which he knew I belonged, had been somewhat unfortunate, and doubtless he thought I needed reinspiring. There were two points in his manner which insisted upon notice — a sideways carriage of the head and a habit of looking at people with eyes wide open, staring,dull, fishy even, more than owlish. The effect was of talking to somebody over my shoulder. Having by permission selected a place for encampment beyond Shiloh Run, I had the entire properties of the division brought from Crump's; after which I waited developments, knowing to what the new general was bound to address himself first thing—that is, the taking of Corinth. ...« less