Sunday, February 11, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, December 7, 1864 – 10:20 a.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington, December 7, 1864 10.20 a.m.
Lieutenant-General GRANT:

You remember that when Steele was relieved by Canby he was ordered to Cairo to report to this Department. What shall be done with him? The order superseding Rosecrans by Dodge has been issued. Thomas seems unwilling to attack because it is hazardous, as if all war was anything but hazardous. If he waits for Wilson to get ready, Gabriel will be blowing his last horn.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 45, Part 2 (Serial No. 94), p. 84

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