在3月，1864年第18天，在田纳西州纳什维尔，我松了一口气中将格兰特在密西西比河的军事司命令，涵盖了俄亥俄州，金巴伦，田纳西系，阿肯色，指挥少将分别斯科菲尔德，托马斯，麦克弗森和斯蒂尔。格兰特将军是在东起承担所有的美国军队的命令行事，但更多的人尤其是给方向的波托马克军队和詹姆斯，对里士满经营，而我陪他尽可能辛辛那提途中，借此机会讨论私人许多小的细节事件改变自己的设想，并为即将到来的伟大事件，然后准备。这些措施包括拟转让给值得注意和影响力的事件，谁曾，许多人员的职责，把漂流活动和不满。其中著名的将军站在麦克莱伦，伯恩赛德和弗里蒙特，中，东和将军比尔，麦库克，内格利和克里滕登，在西。我的理解是：一般格兰特认为明智和审慎的做法是让所有这些人员适当的命令，这将使他们能够恢复他们失去的影响力，以及为所有的军队一般的重组，当时有必要，他指示我保持特别是考虑到索赔将军比尔，麦库克和克里滕登，并努力给他们的命令，将尽量接近他们的级别和日期作为POS机，要将佣金，但我是做什么，直到我听到他进一步对的主题，因为他解释说，他将不得不作出最后命令前咨询的战争秘书。一般比尔和他的同事也受到长期考验的一个调查法庭，触摸他们在田纳西州和肯塔基州的竞选行为，在佩里维尔，或卓别林的山，10月8,1862战斗造成，他们已大幅度无罪释放;及，因为它是明显的，我们是有一些困难的战斗，我们渴望成为每个人带来和谐，每个人员的技能在武器的职业。其中，将军比尔和麦克莱伦在排名突出，在墨西哥也获得自己的名声，以及在内战前部分原因。
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    On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by Major-Generals Schofield, Thomas, McPherson, and Steele. General Grant was in the act of starting East to assume command of all the armies of the United States, but more particularly to give direction in person to the Armies of the Potomac and James, operating against Richmond; and I accompanied him as far as Cincinnati on his way, to avail myself of the opportunity to discuss privately many little details incident to the contemplated changes, and of preparation for the great events then impending. Among these was the intended assignment to duty of many officers of note and influence, who had, by the force of events, drifted into inactivity and discontent. Among these stood prominent Generals McClellan, Burnside, and Fremont, in, the East; and Generals Buell, McCook, Negley, and Crittenden, at the WeSt. My understanding was that General Grant thought it wise and prudent to give all these officers appropriate commands, that would enable them to regain the influence they had lost; and, as a general reorganization of all the armies was then necessary, he directed me to keep in mind especially the claims of Generals Buell, McCook, and Crittenden, and endeavor to give them commands that would be as near their rank and dates of commission as pos-sible; but I was to do nothing until I heard further from him on the subject, as he explained that he would have to consult the Secretary of War before making final orders. General Buell and his officers had been subjected to a long ordeal by a court of inquiry, touching their conduct of the campaign in Tennessee and Kentucky, that resulted in the battle of Perryville, or Chaplin's Hills, October 8,1862, and they had been substantially acquitted; and, as it was manifest that we were to have some hard fighting, we were anxious to bring into harmony every man and every officer of skill in the profession of arms. Of these, Generals Buell and McClellan were prominent in rank, and also by reason of their fame acquired in Mexico, as well as in the earlier part of the civil war.