106 The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War

Tiptonville road, whereupon the garrison surren-Surrenderof dered at discretion. Three generalsthe gamson. 7000 men, 123 heavy guns, 35 field-

pieces, 7000 stand of muskets, tents for 12,000 men,several hundred horses, and an immense quantityof ammunition, were captured in this brilliantoperation, without the loss of a single man on theFederal side. The credit for the achievement was,as usual, given to the commanding officer, 1 andPope for the moment acquired a reputation whichseemed to rival Grant’s, hut which he was destinedwithin six months to lose when confronted with aproblem which abler men than he found insoluble,— the problem of outgeneralling Robert Lee andStonewall Jackson .

By the capture of Island Number Ten the Mis­ sissippi river was thrown open down to Fort Pil-low, against which the army and fleetsResults. immediately proceeded. But Hallecknow summoned Pope and his army to PittsburgLanding, where all the Union forces were concen-trating for the advance upon Corinth. There wasno use in operating separately upon Fort Pillow,for Corinth once taken, it would fall of itself.

1 The idea of sawing a channel through the submerged forest,the operation upon which everything else depended, originatedwith General Schuyler Hamilton , of New York , a grandson ofAlexander Hamilton and great-grandson of Philip Schuyler . SeeBattles and Leaders , i. 462