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Sometime between 7:00
- 7:30 am on the morning of April 6, 1862, General Grant sat down to
breakfast in this dining room in the Cherry Mansion. His breakfast was
interrupted by a headquarters orderly, Pvt. Edward N. Trembly, who
reported the sounds of artillery coming from the direction of Pittsburg
Landing. Grant went immediately to the back porch, where he heard "heavy
firing" |
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This is a view of the
back porch of the Cherry Mansion taken from the location of the landing
where General Grant's steamer, the Tigress was tied up. Summoning his
staff, Grant came down the terraced steps and boarded the Tigress, giving
orders to start upriver at once |
