Mc Clernand's Story

Mc clernand's first post was at the head of a brigade in missouri under general ulysses s grant. Grant had talked to him of his plans for capturing the confederate fort at vicksburg, on the mississippi river. Mc clernand decided to sell a march on vicksburg as his own idea and use it as a spring board for his career. He quickly recruited more soldiers than he had promised lincoln he would. But when he arrived in memphis in late december 18 62, thousands of men he had recruited were not there. A telegram from grant, dated ten days earlier and waiting for him in memphis, informed him that the general