Camp before Corinth May
26, 62
I received today the commission of Major General, but, I
know not why, it gives me far less emotion than my old commission as 1st
Lieutenant of Artillery. The latter, I know, I merited; this I doubt, but its
possession completes the chain from cadet up, and will remain among the family
archives when you and I repose in eternity.
SOURCES: M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Editor, Home Letters of
General Sherman, p. 226. A full copy of this letter can be
found in the William
T Sherman Family papers (SHR), University of Notre Dame Archives
(UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556, Folder CSHR 1/145.
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