Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies...

Despite his tradition of caution, Halleck eventually reacted positively to Grant's proposal to move against Fort Henry. Halleck hoped that this would improve...

collection of Union forces under the overall command of Major General Henry Halleck engaged in a month-long siege of the city, whose Confederate occupants...

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President Abraham Lincoln, but he was strongly disliked by General-in-Chief Henry Halleck. Sigel was born in Sinsheim, Baden (Germany), and attended the gymnasium...

during the American Civil War. McPherson was on the general staff of Henry Halleck and later of Ulysses S. Grant and was with Grant at the Battle of Shiloh...

that coin is a mystery." Amid the collapse of the Confederacy, General Henry Halleck, Chief of Staff of the Union armies, wrote on April 26, 1865, that Jefferson...

their homes in the middle of the winter of 1862. Union Major General Henry Halleck on January 18, 1862 in a letter to General Lorenzo Thomas described...

American politician DeeDee Halleck (born 1940), American media activist Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867), American poet Henry Halleck (1815–1872), American...

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American Civil War. He wrote biographies of the generals Emory Upton and Henry Halleck, the first of which was based on his dissertation. Early in his career...

would not be released by the Union general-in-chief, Major-General Henry Halleck, for the Vicksburg operations. In 1853, as part of his survey of the...

to the then little-known Ulysses S. Grant, while his area commander Henry Halleck was rewarded with a promotion to General-in-Chief. The Tullahoma campaign...

Charles Abraham Halleck (August 22, 1900 – March 3, 1986) was an American politician. He was the Republican leader of the United States House of Representatives...

upon a book by his chief of staff General Henry Halleck entitled Elements of Military Art and Science; Halleck was a disciple of the European strategist...

between him and Halleck to cut off Nashville. Halleck reluctantly agreed to the plan, which was helped along by Grant's capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson...

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the Harpers Ferry garrison to his field army, but general-in-chief Henry Halleck had refused, saying that the movement would be too difficult and that...

travel difficult, distracting Confederate raids, and orders from General Henry Halleck to secure his position. Later in September, Confederate cavalry launched...

reported to the Secretary of War. From 1864 to 1865, Major General Henry Halleck (who had previously been Commanding General) served as "Chief of Staff...

until 11 July. During the time, he was also the chief of staff for Henry Halleck. He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on 1 November 1861...

Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff is the biography of Union Army General-in-Chief Henry Halleck written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published in 1962. In...

Mountains and Mississippi River) with the exception of Major General Henry Halleck. Continuing their push into Confederate territory, Union troops arrived...

garrison to his army, but his request was refused by general-in-chief Henry Halleck. Lee's invasion was fraught with difficulties from the beginning. The...

from Union General-in-chief Henry Halleck, Grant began concentrating five divisions at Grand Junction, Tennessee. When Halleck endorsed the plan and told...

restored as general-in-chief, but Lincoln responded by naming Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck to the post without consulting, or even informing, McClellan. Lincoln...

Fremont lost his command at St. Louis, to be replaced by Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, whose command was designated the Department of the Missouri. On December...

western troops, and in February 1862, Department of Missouri commander Henry Halleck approved a joint invasion of west Tennessee along the Tennessee and...

Hill to join Jackson with 12,000 men. On August 3, General-in-Chief Henry Halleck directed McClellan to begin his final withdrawal from the Peninsula...

without Major-General John A. McClernand because neither Major-Generals Henry Halleck nor Ulysses S. Grant trusted McClernand. After Sherman's force was repulsed...