Nashville, February 7, 1864.
. . . General Grant
has determined to go himself in command of the forces to operate against
Longstreet, and we shall leave here for Knoxville within ten or twelve days. I
feel he should go. It is too important a matter to trust entirely to others,
however competent they may be, for should they fail the country will ask why he
was not there.
So far as any news
is received, all is quiet in our front to-day. Captain Leet is home on
furlough. I don't know whether I mentioned it in my previous letters. He is a
fine officer, and I flatter myself for procuring his promotion from a private
in the ranks to the position he now fills so well. . . .
SOURCE: James H. Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins,
p. 396
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