Monday, March 30, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 26, 1864

Culpepper C. H., Va., April 26, 1864.

. . . General Grant's request to have General Banks relieved from duty in the field the President declines to accede to till he has heard further from the Red River expedition. I trust in God Banks may retrieve himself. My heart beats fearfully for the brave men he commands. Many of them I know personally. They are of the heroes of Vicksburg. . . .

SOURCE: James H. Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins, p. 425

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