As a subordinate I found that I could not make him do as I wished, and had determined to relieve him from duty that very day.
At the close of the operations just described my force, in round numbers, was 48,500.

Of these 4,800 were in Kentucky and Illinois, 7,000 in Memphis, 19,200 from Mound City south, and 17,500 at Corinth.
General McClernand had been authorized from Washington to go north and organize troops to be used in opening the Mississippi.

These new levies with other reinforcements now began to come in.
On the 25th of October I was placed in command of the Department of the Tennessee.

Reinforcements continued to come from the north and by the 2d of November I was prepared to take the initiative.

This was a great relief after the two and a half months of continued defence over a large district of country, and where nearly every citizen was an enemy ready to give information of our every move.