CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, November 2, 1864—11:30 A. M.
Major- General
SHERMAN:
Your dispatch of 9
A. M. yesterday is just received. I dispatched you the same date, advising that
Hood’s army, now that it had worked so far north, ought to be looked upon now
as the “object.” With the force, however, that you have left with General
Thomas, he must be able to take care of Hood and destroy him.
I do not see that
you can withdraw from where you are to follow Hood, without giving up all we
have gained in territory. I say, then, go on as you propose.
U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant- General.
SOURCE: William T. Sherman, Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman, 1891, Vol. 2, p. 166
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