On this day in the Civil War, General Grant resumes command of forces in Tennessee after General Halleck absolves him of charges of misconduct at Fort Donelson.

grant-2

General Ulysses S. Grant

(Photo Credit: Library of Congress)

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s