City Point,
Virginia,
July 23, 1864.
YOUR letter of the 17th, inclosing one from General Scott,
is just received. I inclose to you my answer to the general, which please
forward to him. All are well here, and buoyant and full of hope. I wish people
North could be as hopeful as our troops who have to do the fighting are. I
cannot write you what I expect to do here. That Maryland raid upset my plans,
but I will make an attempt to do something before many days. . . .
SOURCE: James Grant
Wilson, Editor, General Grant’s Letters to a Friend 1861-1880, p. 37
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