Nashville, February 15, 1864.
. . . General Grant
talks some of going to Chattanooga this week. I don't know whether he will or
not, but if he goes I shall go also.
Colonel Bowers and
I are very busily engaged of evenings on the General's official report of the
battles of Chattanooga, which I assure you is a very unpleasant and I might say
thankless undertaking, for the General is very tenacious of the claim that he
writes his own reports, and it is necessary for us to follow the text as nearly
as possible. With the transposition of sentences, even pages, and the writing
out too of the very plans of the battles, this is difficult.
My cough still
continues but I think I am improving. For a while I gained strength but have
not done so for several days past. If I could take a trip South, I think it
would be of great service to me, but the doctors say there is no danger. They
ought to tell me the truth and I hope do. A cough, however, from the 10th of
October to the 15th of February is not to be slightly treated. . . .
SOURCE: James H.
Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins, p. 399
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