MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug.
3, 1863.
My Dear Brother:
Your
letter dated July 19, at Jackson, is received. What you say about the
injustice of the press was undoubtedly true a month ago, but it is true no
longer. Since the fall of Vicksburg each of the officers named by you has been
very highly lauded, and that by all parties and papers. With you it has been
especially laudatory. Even your old enemy, the Cincinnati “Gazette,” has in
several recent numbers spoken of you in very complimentary terms, and without
any apparent recollection that it has [libeled] you for months. With the
officers of the army you stand very high. Indeed it is now unnecessary for you
to care for defenders. I will think of your proposition to visit Vicksburg, and
will probably do so this fall. At present I am involved in the political canvass
now going on in Ohio, but shall not be long. My position does not require me to
take a very active part. . . .
Affectionately yours,
JOHN SHERMAN
SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The
Sherman letters: correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837
to 1891, p. 210
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