General Grant will immediately have small garrisons detailed for Forts Henry and Donelson, and all other forces made ready for the field" From your letter of the 28th, I learn you were at Fort Donelson, and General Smith at Nashville, from which I infer you could not have received orders.

Halleck's telegram of last night says: "Who sent Smith's division to Nashville?
I ordered it across to the Tennessee, where they are wanted immediately.

Order them back.
Send all spare transports up Tennessee to General Grant." Evidently the general supposes you to be on the Tennessee.

I am sending all the transports I can find for you, reporting to General Sherman for orders to go up the Cumberland for you, or, if you march across to Fort Henry, then to send them up the Tennessee.
G.W.CULLUM, Brigadier-General.
On the 4th came this dispatch: To Major-General U.S.GRANT You will place Major-General C.F.Smith in command of expedition, and remain yourself at Fort Henry.

Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
H.W.HALLECK, Major-General.
Halleck was evidently working himself into a passion, but he was too far from the seat of war to make due allowance for the actual state of facts.