CAIRO, ILL., February 12, 1862.
Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT:
Like yourself, I am most too busy to write a word. I am now
sending everything up the Cumberland by General Halleck's direction.
Flag-Officer Foote left at 9 last night with three armored gunboats, and must
now be on the way to Fort Donelson, which, with their aid, I hope to hear you
have taken in a few days, and the backbone of secession broken. I am sending
re-enforcements up very fast. Let me know your wants. I will write
Lieutenant-Colonel McPherson in a short time.
G. W. CULLUM.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
7 (Serial No. 7), p. 608
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