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===Minor successes===
 
===Minor successes===
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Here he found some level of success.  He assisted in the crushing of an attempted raid into Ohio by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in July, 1863.  He arrested agitators against the war and locked them in jails, suspending habeas corpus for the duration of the war, the most famous of which was a Democratic Congressman named Clement Valandigham, whose arrest set off a firestorm in Washington (Lincoln would issue a famous reply in response: must I shoot some simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?).  He also marched into Knoxville, Tennessee in September, 1863, and held it against Confederate forces under general James Longstreet, thus aiding Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s success in Chattanooga.
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Here he found some level of success.  He assisted in the crushing of an attempted raid into Ohio by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in July, 1863.  He arrested agitators against the war and locked them in jails, suspending habeas corpus for the duration of the war, the most famous of which was a Democratic Congressman named Clement Valandigham, whose arrest set off a firestorm in Washington (Lincoln would issue a famous reply in response: ''"must I shoot some simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?"'').  He also marched into Knoxville, Tennessee in September, 1863, and held it against Confederate forces under general James Longstreet, thus aiding Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s success in Chattanooga.
    
===The Crater===
 
===The Crater===
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