HEAD-QUARTERS ARMIES OF
THE UNITED STATES
City Point, Va.,
Sept. 5th, 1864.
Dear Father:
Your last letter is just received. Before you receive this
it is probable Beverly Simpson will be in service if he comes in at all. If he
does enlist, however, after you receive this tell him to ask to be assigned to
a regiment now with the Army of the Potomac. If he is already in service have
him write to me and I will assign him to some duty either with me or where it
will be equally pleasant for him.
Your theory about delays, either with Sherman or myself, was
not correct. Our movements were
co-operative but after starting each one has done all that
he felt himself able to do. The country has been deceived about the size of our
armies and also as to the number of the enemy. We have been contending against
forces nearly equal to our own, moreover always on the defensive and strongly
intrenched. — Richmond will fall as Atlanta has done and the rebellion will be
suppressed in spite of rebel resistance and Northern countenance and support.
Julia and children are in Philadelphia. If I can get a house there, I will make
that my home. Julia is very desirous that Jennie should make her home with us
if she will, and if she will not do that, at least spend the fall and winter
with us.
ULYSSES.
SOURCE: Jesse Grant Cramer, Editor, Letters of
Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78, p. 104-5
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