While at the train station, Grant conferred with Rosecrans, who energetically disputed Dana’s accusation that he planned to desert Chattanooga. Far from being despondent, Grant found Rosecrans “very cheerful . . . as though a great weight had been lifted off his mind.”115 Rosecrans outlined plans to supply his isolated army, and Grant found it a highly productive meeting with the demoted general laying out “some excellent suggestions as to what should be done. My only wonder was that he had not carried them out.”
