HDQRS. MILITARY
DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Ship's
Gap, October 16, 1864.
General THOMAS,
Nashville:
Send me Davis' and Newton's old divisions. Re-establish the
road and I will follow Hood wherever he may go. I think he will move to Blue
Mountain. We can maintain our men and animals on the country.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
39, Part 2 (Serial No. 79), p. 311; John Bell Hood, Advance and
Retreat, p. 264
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